yes. this was the elegance i was looking for. thx
Blair Mitchelmore-2 wrote:
>
> To avoid running split twice, you could do it this way (removes IE5 from
> compatibility however):
>
> var file1 = str1.split("\\").pop();
>
> -blair
>
> Tombo wrote:
>> this might not be jquery related, but i noticed there are a lot of savvy
>> javascript programmers in this mailing list.
>>
>> i want to grab just the filename and extension from the following string:
>>
>> str1="F:\\Test1\\Test2\\Test3\\test.txt";
>>
>> i want to grab "test.txt"
>>
>> i use this code:
>>
>> file1=(str1.split("\\"))[(str1.split("\\")).length-1];
>>
>>
>> i was wondering if there is a better way to grab that part of the string
>>
>> Thx for any help
>
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