Finding in reverse
Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
Wed Jul 5 12:14:01 EDT 2006
Hi Bill and Robert,
> Two lines:
>
> set the itemdelimiter to "/"
> put the last item of myFilePath
>
> "Robert Sneidar" <bobs at twft.com> wrote in message
> news:9A014ADB-DFE5-4745-B4FD-1C7362CC6A34 at twft.com...
>> Is there a way to scan a text string from end to beginning for
>> something
>> without using a loop? I am trying to "be binary" (for those of you
>> conference goers) and I am trying to extract just a file's name
>> from the
>> full path. It seems to be something of a difficult thing to do in
>> a one
>> liner.
or a one-liner (whith a little bit of cheating!)
...
set the itemdelimiter to "/"; put last item of myFilePath
...
:-)
Regards
Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de
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