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    Keith> use File::Basename;

    Keith> my ($other_way, undef, undef) = fileparse($full_path,);

    Keith> print ($other_way, "\n");

Actually my $name = basename( $full_path ) would probably be better
(not to mention the undefs are extraneous as any extra list elements
would just be dropped; a more succinct way would have been

my $path = ( fileparse( $full_path ) )[0];

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