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911 Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Stuttgart, Germany Insane since: Apr 2001	posted 10-09-2001 13:05 hi all! i´ve gat a string like this: code: var xxx = "c:\xxx\yyy.html"; now i want to manipulate this string, so that i only got the filename in my var xxx. how can i do this in js?(in php it´s pretty easy, but in js?) p.s.: i used the search to find an old topic about this problem, but didn´t find anything. but maybe there is one.(mrmax?);-)
lallous Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lebanon Insane since: May 2001	posted 10-09-2001 15:03 code: <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var xxx = "c:\\xxx\\yyy.html"; alert(xxx.match(/[^\\]+$/)); //--> </script>
lallous Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lebanon Insane since: May 2001	posted 10-09-2001 15:10 bloody netscape, the last one doesn't work in netscape... try this: code: <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var xxx = "c:\\xxx\\yyy.html"; xxx = xxx.substr(xxx.lastIndexOf('\\')+1); alert(xxx); //--> </script>
911 Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Stuttgart, Germany Insane since: Apr 2001	posted 10-09-2001 15:22 thx! your code worked fine!