If you know the absolute filename and want to open that file,
what prevents you from doing just that?
_Ass_uming safe input data here:
my $filename = $ARGV[0] or die "No filename given\n";
open INPUT, "<", $filename or die "could not open $filename\n";
while (<INPUT>) { print $_ };
close INPUT;
Anyway:
If the complete filename is in $filename you can do:
my ($file_without_path) = $filename =~ /^.*?\/(\w*?\w*?\.ext)$/;
and end up with something like: "file23432545335.ext"
Still, I don't see the point if you trust the filename as being safe,
and just want to open it. (Since you will need the path anyway).
janx
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