getting just the file name from REQUEST_URI in perl

[jeremy goodrich]

After some digging (and a few lame attempts on my own part) I got this...

( $name ) = split( /[\?\#]/, $ENV{REQUEST_URI} );
( $name ) = ( $name =~ m#([^/]+)$# );

Just wondering if there is a faster and or easier way to do the above. Works well, and is better than the method I was trying to get working...

[netcommr]

$name = split( /[\?\#]/,$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'});
$name =~ s/^.*\///;

Regular expressions in perl are 'greedy'. They will match as much as possible in most cases. This example will remove everything up to and including the last forward slash (/).