Find file name from full file path?

Question

Is there a way to extract the file name from the file full path (part of a file path) without the hassle of manipulating string?The equivalent in Java would be: File f = new File ("C:/some_dir/a") f.getName() //output a f.getFullAbsolutePath() //output c:/some_dir/a

Answer 1

Fortunately, there is!

And if you're a bash developer, this should look very natural ;-)

> path="C:/tmp/lji/file.txt"

> f=basename(path)

> f

[1] "file.txt"

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