Bug #11442 for PathTools: add dirname, basename, fileparse

Wed Feb 09 10:06:50 2005 Guest - Ticket created

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add dirname, basename, fileparse

Obsolete File::Basename, add dirname, basename, fileparse to File::Spec http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=383907 http://perlmonks.thepen.com/250534.html

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Fri Jul 08 19:48:27 2005 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> Obsolete File::Basename, add dirname, basename, fileparse to > File::Spec > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=383907 > http://perlmonks.thepen.com/250534.html

Is this a suggestion that File::Basename use File::Spec internally or that File::Spec add fileparse, basename and dirname methods? Keep in mind the recent round of File::Basename fixes to dirname and basename. The docs lied, they do not do what you think. They emulate the dirname(1) and basename(1) shell commands which do NOT always return the directory name and file name. The log of recent changes. http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=lib%2FFile%2FBasename.pm&log=1 The current development version of the module. http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=lib%2FFile%2FBasename.pm&blame=1 The current test suite. http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=lib%2FFile%2FBasename.t&rev=

Sat Jul 09 11:26:49 2005 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I can't claim to follow this discussion (maybe because it ranges over so many forums), but File::Spec already has a method to separate directories from files: splitpath(). The code on perlmonks seemed to be confused about what "suffix" means, as it seems to be treating it as the volume name. -Ken