Simple Trimming Question

[Tddupre]

I need to trim everything preceding the last / in a string. for example if the string were "C:\Files\New\program.exe" all I want is the "program.exe portion.

How would I go about doing this

[kebo]

if you want this to get file names you can use

io.path.getfilename(fname)

otherwise something like this will work

s = mystring.substring(mystring.lastindex("/"))

or something like that
kevin

[Tddupre]

thank you

[gep13]

Hey,

When it comes to files and file paths, there are a number of methods available that replace the way things used to be done, i.e. with substring. GetFileName is just one of them.

You can see them all here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/libr...h_members.aspx

Hope that helps!!

Gary