Objective-C: Extract filename from path string

Question

When I have NSString with /Users/user/Projects/thefile.ext I want to extract thefile with Objective-C methods.

What is the eas

Answer 1

At the risk of being years late and off topic - and notwithstanding @Marc's excellent insight, in Swift it looks like:

let basename = NSURL(string: "path/to/file.ext")?.URLByDeletingPathExtension?.lastPathComponent