Get filename from string path in javascript?

Question

How to get the filename from string-path in javascript?

Here is my code

var nameString = "/app/base/controllers/filename.js"; //this is the input path string 

do something here to get only the filename

var name = ???   //this value should equal to filename.js 

Answer 1

Try this:

   var nameString = "/app/base/controllers/filename.js";    var filename = nameString.split("/").pop(); 

Answer 2

I don't know why you'd want to us a regex to do this. Surely the following would be sufficient:

var nameString = "/app/base/controllers/filename.js"; var nameArray = nameString.split('/'); var name = nameArray[nameArray.length - 1];