string problems with "\\" (Windows)

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 <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> 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.

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