parsing through pathnames

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Barry Levine <themacguy at macosx.com> wrote:
> Given a pathname such as
> "/Volumes/120GB/Applications/Appleworks\ 6" 
> (I'm using shell for my commands hence the backslash
> preceding the 
> space), is there an easy way of returning the last
> part of the path? 
> ("/Appleworks\ 6" in this case)
> 
> TIA,
> Barry
> 

Hi Barry,

The shortest way I can think of is :
--
  set the itemDelimiter to "/"
  put "/" & item -1 of tPath into tLastPart
--

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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