Get only file name from file input on internet explorer

Question

I need to return only the file name from an HTML input file.

The JavaScript code im using to get

Answer 1

var path = document.getElementById("whatever").value;
var filename = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);

This will give you everything after the last /, but is also compatible with a lack of /s. In case you also need to deal with \ as the lovely path separator, you can always use this first:

path.replace(/\\/g, "/")