[R] Isolating string containing only file name from complete path

Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk
Mon Jul 11 18:29:18 CEST 2005


x <- "/Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1.txt"
basename(x)
[1] "file1.txt"



On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:13 +0000, Ken Termiso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What I'd like to do is to is to be able to extract a string corresponding to 
> only the file name from a string containing the complete path, i.e. from the 
> following path string:
> 
> "/Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1"
> 
> I would like to end up with:
> 
> "file1"
> 
> This would be most ideally done in a platform-independent way.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Ken
> 
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