[OT] REGEX Help

[Paul Howarth]

Yang Xiao wrote:
> Hi all,
> I can't remember how to strip the full path out and just get the file
> name in something like this
> /fullpath/to/file or /full/path/to/file.ext
> Can anyone provide a regex that will get me just file or file.ext.

You don't say what language you are trying to do this in.

If it's part of a shell script you can just use:

filename=`basename $pathname`

Paul.