What syntax would I use if I were to use File::Basename?

I presumed that tmpFileName() was a function in File::Copy. Was obviously mistaken.

Thanks for the advice and comments.

Since your incoming path seems to have Windows type backslashes as delimiters, I am using that below.

However, you should always use forward slashe, even under Windows, and get rid of them as soon as possible with something like: $path =~ s.\\.\/.g;

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Basename;
my $path_to_file = 'bla\bla\full\path\to\file.ext';
$path_to_file =~ s.\\.\/.g;
my ($file,$path) = fileparse($path_to_file);
print "$file is in $path\n";
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For copying files using File::Copy, you do:

use File::Copy;
copy $file,$newpath or die "Cannot copy $file to $newpath:$!\n";
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Helgi Briem
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I tried the above and it did not work as expected, or shall I say at all.

my $path_to_file is a file form field on a web page being displayed on a windows client, hence c:\...... do you think that is why it does not work? Is your $path_to_file on the same machine (in my case the linux web server)?