From: "Jan-Erik R." <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T01:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding filename from a URL

Sam Fent schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is just a basic parsing question, really. I'm trying to work out
> how I would process a URL such as
> "http://www.example.com/x/y/z/myfile.txt" and get back the filename
> "myfile". Basically the pattern is to get the past part of the string
> after the final /, and then strip off the filetype.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated,
> Thanks!
> 
> Sam
File.basename("http://www.example.com/x/y/z/myfile.txt")
works perfectly for urls ;)