The technique I'm usually using is this
if the platform.environment contains "windows" then
separator = "/"
else
separator = ":"
end if
OldDelimiter = the itemdelimiter
the itemdelimiter = separator
filename = the last item of filepath -- assuming filepath contains
the whole string
the itemdelimiter = OldDelimiter
no repeats needed, works like a charm
hth
Bart
On 22 Nov 2005, at 20:54, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
is it the # of the last element in a list?
Sorry, Buzz. I should've been clearer. I'm looking for a quick
way to
take a path (string) and chop it down to just the file name. I
came up
with this:
on reduceToFileName(thePath)
-- chops off all slashes (char 92) and returns just the file name.
repeat with i = thePath.length down to 1
if(charToNum(thePath.char[i]) = 92) then
return thePath.char[(i+1)..(thePath.length)]
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
End
-- example:
fileName = reduceToFileName("C:\Documents and
Settings\currentUser\Desktop\web.html")
put fileName
-- "web.html"
I figured simply getting the last index of the "\" would work
easier. I
could have sworn that at one time, Tom Higgins posted one line of
MX2004
syntax to do this, and I just can't remember what it was, and that
dastardly lingo-L list yields no results. :-)
Thanks,
- Michael M.
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