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authorMichael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>2005-07-06 06:06:20 -0700
committerSteve Hay <SteveHay@planit.com>2005-07-07 11:21:41 +0000
commit6eae9758ed9397ecd63d15ce9ba0eb49710ef187 (patch)
treee1e7a07747512311d0a756a43d32f6612f99b838 /lib/File/Basename.pm
parente586b3ebefae93da888d3ee5f657e85c0af762d9 (diff)
downloadperl-6eae9758ed9397ecd63d15ce9ba0eb49710ef187.tar.gz
Mention File::Spec in File::Basename
Message-ID: <20050706200620.GE15644@windhund.schwern.org> (plus bump $VERSION) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25091
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/File/Basename.pm')
-rw-r--r--lib/File/Basename.pm16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/File/Basename.pm b/lib/File/Basename.pm
index 972849e700..345edcfe3e 100644
--- a/lib/File/Basename.pm
+++ b/lib/File/Basename.pm
@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@ File::Basename - Parse file paths into directory, filename and suffix.
These routines allow you to parse file paths into their directory, filename
and suffix.
-B<NOTE>: C<dirname()> and C<basename()> emulate the behaviours, and quirks, of
-the shell and C functions of the same name. See each function's documention
-for details.
+B<NOTE>: C<dirname()> and C<basename()> emulate the behaviours, and
+quirks, of the shell and C functions of the same name. See each
+function's documention for details. If your concern is just parsing
+paths it is safer to use L<File::Spec>'s C<splitpath()> and
+C<splitdir()> methods.
It is guaranteed that
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ It is guaranteed that
is equivalent to the original path for all systems but VMS.
+
=cut
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ our(@ISA, @EXPORT, $VERSION, $Fileparse_fstype, $Fileparse_igncase);
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(fileparse fileparse_set_fstype basename dirname);
-$VERSION = "2.73";
+$VERSION = "2.74";
fileparse_set_fstype($^O);
@@ -365,3 +368,8 @@ sub fileparse_set_fstype {
1;
+
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<dirname(1)>, L<basename(1)>, L<File::Spec>