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Josh
Josh

Reputation: 12566

VBScript - Last Piece of String

I'm working with a SVN post-commit hook, and need to extract the last piece of info after a \ in a path.

Basically I need to get testName from:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WANDisco\uberSVN\testName

Where that string is in a variable, repoName.

Completely wrong language, but in PHP, i'd explode() the string at the \, then get the last item in the array. I hope this is easy, but VBScript is completely foreign to me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1627

Answers (2)

Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins

Reputation: 802

Are you trying to get a file name from a path? If so the proper way to do this in VBScript is with a FileSystemObject like so:

dim filesys, filename, path
Set filesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
path = filesys.GetAbsolutePathName("c:\somefile.txt")
getname = filesys.GetFileName(path)

If you really just want to split a string, use: VBScript Split function

Upvotes: 2

Brandon Moretz
Brandon Moretz

Reputation: 7641

Try using the FileSystemObject:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\WANDisco\uberSVN\testName")
Set repoName = objFSO.GetFileName(objFile)

Upvotes: 1

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