How to get the file name from a full path using JavaScript?

Question

Is there a way that I can get the last value (based on the \'\\\' symbol) from a full path?

Example:

C:\\Documents and Settings\\img\\recycled log.jpg<

Answer 1

Just for the sake of performance, I tested all the answers given here:

var substringTest = function (str) {
    return str.substring(str.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
}

var replaceTest = function (str) {
    return str.replace(/^.*(\\|\/|\:)/, '');
}

var execTest = function (str) {
    return /([^\\]+)$/.exec(str)[1];
}

var splitTest = function (str) {
    return str.split('\\').pop().split('/').pop();
}

substringTest took   0.09508600000000023ms
replaceTest   took   0.049203000000000004ms
execTest      took   0.04859899999999939ms
splitTest     took   0.02505500000000005ms

And the winner is the Split and Pop style answer, Thanks to bobince !

Answer 2

This solution is much simpler and generic, for both 'file name' and 'path'.

const str = 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\img\\recycled log.jpg';

// regex to split path to two groups '(.*[\\\/])' for path and '(.*)' for file name
const regexPath = /^(.*[\\\/])(.*)$/;

// execute the match on the string str
const match = regexPath.exec(str);
if (match !== null) {
    // we ignore the match[0] because it's the match for the hole path string
    const filePath = match[1];
    const fileName = match[2];
}

Answer 3

Successfully Script for your question ,Full Test

<script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>

<p  title="text" id="FileNameShow" ></p>
<input type="file"
   id="myfile"
   onchange="javascript:showSrc();"
   size="30">

<script type="text/javascript">

function replaceAll(txt, replace, with_this) {
    return txt.replace(new RegExp(replace, 'g'), with_this);
}

function showSrc() {
    document.getElementById("myframe").href = document.getElementById("myfile").value;
    var theexa = document.getElementById("myframe").href.replace("file:///", "");
    var path = document.getElementById("myframe").href.replace("file:///", "");
    var correctPath = replaceAll(path, "%20", " ");
   alert(correctPath);
    var filename = correctPath.replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, '')
    $("#FileNameShow").text(filename)
}

Answer 4

What platform does the path come from? Windows paths are different from POSIX paths are different from Mac OS 9 paths are different from RISC OS paths are different...

If it's a web app where the filename can come from different platforms there is no one solution. However a reasonable stab is to use both '\' (Windows) and '/' (Linux/Unix/Mac and also an alternative on Windows) as path separators. Here's a non-RegExp version for extra fun:

var leafname= pathname.split('\\').pop().split('/').pop();

Answer 5

function getFileName(path, isExtension){

  var fullFileName, fileNameWithoutExtension;

  // replace \ to /
  while( path.indexOf("\\") !== -1 ){
    path = path.replace("\\", "/");
  }

  fullFileName = path.split("/").pop();
  return (isExtension) ? fullFileName : fullFileName.slice( 0, fullFileName.lastIndexOf(".") );
}

Answer 6

Ates, your solution doesn't protect against an empty string as input. In that case, it fails with TypeError: /([^(\\|\/|\:)]+)$/.exec(fullPath) has no properties.

bobince, here's a version of nickf's that handles DOS, POSIX, and HFS path delimiters (and empty strings):

return fullPath.replace(/^.*(\\|\/|\:)/, '');