8.68 File::Basename

Parses a file's path, returning its three component pieces: the path to the file, the file's basename, and the file's extension. For example, for:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/SelectSaver.pm

the path is /usr/local/lib/perl5 , the basename is SelectSaver , and the extension is .pm . File::Basename exports the following functions:

• basename
• dirname
• fileparse
• fileparse_set_fstype