From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T01:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding filename from a URL

Sam Fent wrote:
> 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


$ irb
irb(main):001:0> x = "http://www.example.com/x/y/z/myfile.txt"
=> "http://www.example.com/x/y/z/myfile.txt"
irb(main):002:0> File.basename(x)
=> "myfile.txt"
irb(main):003:0> File.basename(x, '.txt')
=> "myfile"


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