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by **Andreas V. Oppenhei** » Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:50:04

Hi, did anybody know how i get the filename of a whole string, for eg. of
"/home/andreas/test.png" i want get the "test.png"

Thanks for help

by **Branko Colli** » Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:10:43

17:50:04 +0100:

Quote:>Hi, did anybody know how i get the filename of a whole string, for eg. of
>"/home/andreas/test.png" i want get the "test.png"

According to the SIOD documentation, (strbreakup
"/home/andreas/test.png" "/") should return the list ("home" "andreas"
"test.png").

I don't know if there is an easy way to get to the tail of that list.

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by **Geoffrey Summerhaye** » Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:22:40

> 17:50:04 +0100:

> >Hi, did anybody know how i get the filename of a whole string, for eg. of
> >"/home/andreas/test.png" i want get the "test.png"

> According to the SIOD documentation, (strbreakup
> "/home/andreas/test.png" "/") should return the list ("home" "andreas"
> "test.png").

> I don't know if there is an easy way to get to the tail of that list.

(define (path->filename x)
(car (last (strbreakup x "/"))))

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