"Mr. B" <User@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
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> I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a
string.
> The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
> itself.
>
> I could do it the long way by getting the length of the string, and
> subtracting one character at a time until I hit the '\' character... then
> I'll know how much to subtract to get my file name.
>
> An example of the string is:
> "P:\Projects\2004\10-02-230 (ProjectName\600 Drawings\E101.dwg"
>
> But is there an easier (and faster) way to search for the last '\'
character
> in my string? (keep in mind that the number of '\' in each string will
also
> vary).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce

> I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
> The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
> itself.
>
> I could do it the long way by getting the length of the string, and
> subtracting one character at a time until I hit the '\' character... then
> I'll know how much to subtract to get my file name.

With Deft Fingers, Mr. B <User@NoWhere.com> wrote:

>I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
>The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
>itself.

Mr. B <User@NoWhere.com> wrote:
> With Deft Fingers, Mr. B <User@NoWhere.com> wrote:
>
> >I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
> >The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
> >itself.
>
> Yeow! Thanks ALL... so many options to choose from... I'll try them all and
> see where I get.

> While there are indeed lots of ways of approaching this, I'd be
> surprised if Path.GetFileName or Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension
> didn't turn out to be the best one here, as they do *exactly* what it
> sounds like you need.
>

> That was what Herfried had answered already in the VB.language group,
> however you can not see that because Herfried is using a newsreader which
> cannot crosspost when it is not in his range of standard newsgroups.

With Deft Fingers, hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) wrote:

>> I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
>> The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
>> itself.

>Use 'System.IO.Path.GetFileName' instead.

>>> I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
>>> The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
>>> itself.
>
>> Use 'System.IO.Path.GetFileName' instead.
>
> Hmmm... in thinking about this... I'm not sure this will work. As I am trying
> to extract the file name from a 'string' (knowing that it is after the last \
> character).. not look for it on a drive! But I'll try it anyways.

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b1a5d6ce04c747c98a9b4@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Mr. B <User@NoWhere.com> wrote:
> > With Deft Fingers, Mr. B <User@NoWhere.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a
string.
> > >The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file
name
> > >itself.
> >
> > Yeow! Thanks ALL... so many options to choose from... I'll try them all
and
> > see where I get.
>
> While there are indeed lots of ways of approaching this, I'd be
> surprised if Path.GetFileName or Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension
> didn't turn out to be the best one here, as they do *exactly* what it
> sounds like you need.
>
> --
> Jon Skeet - <skeet@pobox.com>
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
> If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

With Deft Fingers, hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) wrote:

>> Hmmm... in thinking about this... I'm not sure this will work. As I am trying
>> to extract the file name from a 'string' (knowing that it is after the last \
>> character).. not look for it on a drive! But I'll try it anyways.
>
>Mhm... How do your path strings look like?

>>> Hmmm... in thinking about this... I'm not sure this will work. As I am trying
>>> to extract the file name from a 'string' (knowing that it is after the last \
>>> character).. not look for it on a drive! But I'll try it anyways.
>>
>> Mhm... How do your path strings look like?
>
> What I had initially shown as an example is:
>
> An example of the string is:
> "P:\Projects\2004\10-02-230 (ProjectName\600 Drawings\E101.dwg"
>
> (: Pretty standard stuff... but I guess I should have explained that I get
> this 'string' from a TXT type file and not the HD (sorry... silly me for not
> explaining better) :(

> One alternative for finding the position of the last character in a string
> which is not a file name is:
> strFoo.LastIndexOf("\")