Remove path from filename

Question

I have trivial question.

I have string which contains a filename and it's path. How can i remove whole path? I have tried those:

line = "/some/path/to/remove/file.name" line := strings.LastIndex(line, "/") fmt.Println(line) 

It prints some strange number:

38 

I need it without last slash

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

The number is the index of the last slash in the string. If you want to get the file's base name, use filepath.Base:

path := "/some/path/to/remove/file.name" file := filepath.Base(path) fmt.Println(file) 

Playground: http://play.golang.org/p/DzlCV-HC-r.