From 6eae9758ed9397ecd63d15ce9ba0eb49710ef187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael G. Schwern" <schwern@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:06:20 -0700
Subject: Mention File::Spec in File::Basename Message-ID:
 <20050706200620.GE15644@windhund.schwern.org>

(plus bump $VERSION)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25091
---
 lib/File/Basename.pm | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/File/Basename.pm')

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>
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