getting the last part of a string

[raids51]

i need help. i have vb 2005 and i want to take a string and only use every thing past the last "/" ex. "C:\example\exa mple\THIS-IS-THE-PART-I-WANT.txt"

[Shashi Sadasivan]

there is a method called LastIndexOf for a string dataType.
use that to get the index of the required charachter.

Alternatively you may also use the Split method.

[vishalgupta]

you can call the Split() as / as the delimiter
using UBound you can access the last element of the array formed by split() which is what you want to extract....

[raids51]

first i just dont understand what ur talkin about with the lastindexof part and second i could use split but there is more then one "/" in the string any more ideas/details

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Split returns an array of strings seperated by the charachters.

get the last array index and that value....which will be what you are looking for

[CODE=cpp]string str = "hello\im\here" ;
int i = str.LastIndexOf ('\');[/CODE]

i will be 9 in this case

cheers
use intellisense and msdn before you start throwing comments

[kunal pawar]

Shashi is right
u can use

string str = "C:\example\exa mple\THIS-IS-THE-PART-I-WANT.txt";
int i = str.LastIndexOf ('\');
string s ="";
s= str.substr(i+1, str.length) ;

OUTPUT will be
THIS-IS-THE-PART-I-WANT.txt

[Plater]

Another option is, if you are using this to only find filenames from a full file path, is to use the FileInfo class and use the .Name property to get the filename.