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Most regular expressions are ambiguous.  This one just specifies a "/"
followed by one or more characters.  Since there are 4 "/" characters
followed by other characters in the input text, there are 4 ways that
this regexp can match:

opt/SAM/SystemConfig/vtun.pl
SAM/SystemConfig/vtun.pl
SystemConfig/vtun.pl
vtun.pl

By default, subpatterns in perl regexps are "greedy", which means they
will attempt to match as many characters as possible.  This gives the
first match above.

What you really want though is a regexp that specifies a "/" character,
followed by one or more characters that are not a "/":

m{/([^/]+)$}

HTH,
Jason
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