Finding in reverse

Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
Wed Jul 5 12:08:42 EDT 2006


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.






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