Remove path from file name

Hello!

There's probably a simple tool for this, but I can't find it:

Have a string for a file name that includes the full path, like:

C:\Users\DougAnderson\Documents\MATLAB\SHtest\sig hole 1.xlsx

where the last part (the actual file name) may contain spaces. I would like to change this to, for example

sig hole 1

Thanks

Doug

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

You can use fileparts. I had to switch the direction of the slashes because I'm using a mac, but it should work on your machine keeping the slashes the way you wrote them:

[~,name,~] = fileparts('C:/Users/DougAnderson/Documents/MATLAB/SHtest/sig hole 1.xlsx')
name =
sig hole 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Chad, fullfile will handle filesep for you.

fullfile('C:\Documents/MATLAB')

[Chad Greene]

Ah, very cool!

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

s='C:\Users\DougAnderson\Documents\MATLAB\SHtest\sig\hole 1.xlsx'
out=regexp(s,'(?<=\\)[^\\]+$','match')

[Douglas Anderson]

Thank you, Azzi. I thought I might have to go to "regexp()" to get this done, but "fileparts()" makes my task simpler!

Answer 3

[Douglas Anderson]

Ah, Perfect!!!! Thank you, Chad.