Quick string matching help

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have string:

“/dira/dirb/file.txt”

I want to get the file name as a separate string. I found the following:

string.gsub("/dira/dirb/file.txt","(.*)/", function(a) print(a) end )

but this gives me “/dira/dirb/” - I want file.txt

I’m sure there’s an easy way to do this.

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#2

don’t use gsub, use gmatch:
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