Help with String Manipulation

[sal175]

Hello,

I need to chop up a string to obtain just the filename of an image. Lets say the image source is /images/thumbs/image.jpg. Using the DOM I have the source of the image in a variable called 'source'.

What I want to do is manipulate it so that it just returns the file name image.jpg. How can I achieve this? I tried split() to see if I could split it into an array using the / as a separator, but this didn't work.

Thanks.

[NikoB]

try

string.substring(string.lastIndexOf('/'));

[sal175]

Thanks. How do I test to make sure if a '/' is present in the first place? Something like
if (string.indexOf('/') != -1) ??

Thanks

[NikoB]

exactly...

[sal175]

Thanks. One more thing, how do I remove the '/' in the filename once I strip out all of the other path information?

[NikoB]

if it isnt stripped out anyway (I always forget if substring cuts away the index or before the index), just use lastIndexOf()+1

[stereofrog]

source = "/images/thumbs/image.jpg";

// try this 
alert(source.split("/").pop()) 

// or this
alert(source.match(/[^\/]+$/)[0])

[sal175]

NikoB, stereofrog - Thanks!