From: Young Moon <phaneee5@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T21:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Working with String

Hi,

irb(main):035:0> "/foo/foo.gif".split("/")[-1]
=> "foo.gif"
irb(main):038:0> "/foo/foo.gif".split(".")[-1]
=> "gif"

On Aug 18, 5:03 pm, Dipesh Batheja <dipesh_bath...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi need some help with string manipulation. I have a string representing
> full path of a file. Example "/foo/foo.gif". I need to just extract the
> file name i.e "foo.gif" from this string. I also need to extract the
> file type i.e "gif" from it in a separate string. Can anybody tell me
> how to do it using regular expressions in Ruby. I know this can be done
> using String.gsub, but i am too bad at reg expressions. And if someone
> can point me to good source for learning reg expressions then it would
> be really helpful.
>
> Thanks
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