I'm trying to find a string split function but can't seem to find one.

I'm trying to retrieve just the filename from a path ..... for example:


D:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp40892
..tmp

I want to retrieve only the "neotmp40892.tmp" so I can save that to a variable.

On Jul 24, 2:36 pm, "dmorand17" <webforumsu...@macromedia.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a string split function but can't seem to find one.
>
> I'm trying to retrieve just the filename from a path ..... for example:
>
> D:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp40892
> .tmp
>
> I want to retrieve only the "neotmp40892.tmp" so I can save that to a variable.

GetFileFromPath()? Or ListGetAt()? (see CF docs)

ListLast will work.

Hi
As dan rightly said you use listlast function as explained below.

<cfset
filename="D:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion \SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\n
eotmp40892.tmp">
<cfoutput>
#listlast(filename,"\")#
</cfoutput>

Thanks,
Satheesh.

That worked like a charm! Thanks guys!!!!

dmorand17 wrote:
> That worked like a charm! Thanks guys!!!!

Just in case you want something different there are is the
fileFromPath() function as well. But I'm not sure why this would be better.

On Jul 24, 9:36*am, "dmorand17" <webforumsu...@macromedia.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a string split function but can't seem to find one. *
>
> *I'm trying to retrieve just the filename from a path ..... for example:
>
> D:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp40892
> .tmp
>
> *I want to retrieve only the "neotmp40892.tmp" so I can save that to a variable.

While what you want is the getFileFromPathFunction() or listLast
functions, since CF is built on J2EE you also have native access to a
lot of the Java functions. ColdFusion strings are Java Strings
internally, which means they are an Object of class
“java.lang.String” . So you can use the string object functions
including the split method as in foo.split(). For instance, arrSplit =
myStr.split("i"); will return an array (split by the letter 'i').

hth,
larry