perl question...

[Howard Stern]

sorry, the perl forum i frequent shut down so im hoping i can get some help here.

my question is how do i escape the backslash "\" character?

im trying to get the name of the script thats running by spitting $0

$0 holds "C:\~robbie\bbs\test.pl"

@a=split(/\\/, $0); #this does NOT work!

any help would be appreciated
also if someone could suggest a good perl forum...

[FreeLz]

There is an easy way of getting the running script:

first, the $0 variable holds the script and the current executing directory. To make this variable actually tell you what the script name is, just add the following code:

($basename = $0) =~ s%.*/%%;
($dirname = $0) =~ s%/[^/]*$%%;

clear now?