Get file name from full path and name?

[J. Landman Gay]

Garrett Hylltun wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Searched the docs for anything that might do this, but can't find  
> anything....
> 
> Does anyone know how to extract a file name and extension from a full  
> path, such as from "answer file" ?

Like so:

set the itemdelimiter to "/"
put last item of "my/long/filepath/name.txt" into tShortName

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