scraping a string of text?

[merkaba 36]

I've been staring ubot like an idiot for about 2 hours now stuck on a hang up.

 

Breaking it down, I have the following :

 

Open file > with a variable attached to it.

 

I want to take that variable and parse it for the file name/extension ie remove everything bolded C:\Users\name\Desktop\folder\example.txt and leave just the file name, but do so in such a way that it doesn't matter how whats in front of the file name. Anyone have a solution to this?

[warriorfullights 0]

It looks like this post has been doubled.. Anyway, have a good day.

[dmbfan 9]

I would do a find by regular expression on the variable using the following regex code:

 

\\[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*

 

Then in the next step I would do a replace on that same variable searching for \ and replacing it with $nothing.

 

That should leave you just the file name

[Legend 181]

You can combine/condense those steps with:

 

set(#file name, $replace($find regular expression($find regular expression(#file name, "\\\\[a-zA-Z0-9]*\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*"), "\\\\[a-zA-Z0-9]*\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*"), "\\", $nothing), "Global")

 

might be a hiccup with multi-word file names though...

 

 

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[Praney Behl 314]

If Regex is not your game then here is an easy alternative for you:

 

Code:

add list to list(%sample, $list from text("C:\\Users\\name\\Desktop\\folder\\example.txt", "\\"), "Delete", "Global")
set(#filename, $list item(%sample, $subtract($list total(%sample), 1)), "Global")

 

Hope it helps

Praney