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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:


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