help with regular expression

dabombst · Post by **dabombst** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:44 pm

Hi, I have this path that i need only the file name and extension at the end of the path.

example:
\\dct02\abc\Bennett_1_050823\C_Drive1\Documents and Settings\Administrator\NTUSER.DAT

outcome should be...

NTUSER.DAT

Thanks

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:23 pm

Is each path the only text on a line? If so, then this does it:

Find what: .*\\
Replace with: [Nothing]

[X] Regular expression

The regular expression recogniser will find a match that starts as far to the left as possible (i.e., at the beginning of the line) and that is as long as possible (i.e., up to and including the last backslash).