Moved to r-devel. Perhaps basename should take an optional separator argument so that
basename(x, "\\") could be used to override the default behavior. On 7/9/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel