get path basename or how to parse a file path

[daryl]

Hi Folks,

I am very new to LiveCode, but trying to get up to speed quickly. Right now I am stuck trying to parse a file path, so given the following file path:

/some/foo/bar/path/to/bingo.html

how can I put the filename bingo.html into a container? I have searched and searched without success. It seems to be more complicated than it needs to be.

Any help or pointers to documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Daryl

[Dixie]

Hi..

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set itemDel to slash
put "/some/foo/bar/path/to/bingo.html" into theString
put the last item of theString

will put 'bingo.html' into the msg box

Dixie

[mwieder]

Another useful trick to know is that

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put item 1 to -2 of theString

will give you the enclosing folder of bingo.html, i.e., "/some/foo/bar/path/to".

[daryl]

Wow! That was fast and very useful. Thank you both, Dixie and mwieder for your suggestions, I appreciate both of your responses, and they will prove very useful to me.

Best Regards,

Daryl