basename() works. If you're on a system that doesn't think \\ is a path separator, you could do something like
x <- "C:\\Documents and Settings\\myName\\My Documents\\RProjects\\Project1\\file.name.csv" basename(gsub('\\\\','/',x)) Duncan Murdoch Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > Greetings, R-ians: > > I'm using R 2.3.1 on WindowsXP. > > I need to find the name of a file at the end of a sting that contains the > path + file, with the problematic "\\" as separators. > > The string looks something like this: > > "C:\\Documents and Settings\\myName\\My Documents\\R > Projects\\Project1\\file.name.csv" > > What I want is "file.name.csv" > > Currently I use the name of the project as the splitter in > > strsplit(string.name, split="Project1", extended = FALSE) > > This works, of course, but I won't always be using folder Project1, so I > need a more universal way to find the name of a file at the end of a string > with "\\" separators. > > Can I get there from here? (I've looked through previous R-help listing of > similar problems but if it's there, I missed it.) > > Thanks. > > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html