Remove "/" from url?

[Azreal]

Hello, I have a url of a file as a string, if the url were "h++p://www.vbdotnetforums.com/newthread.php" how would I just get the "newthread.php"?

I have this:

Dim str As String
str = TextBoxURL.Text
str = str.Substring(str.IndexOf("/"), str.Length - str.IndexOf("/"))

But that only does it for the first "/" in the string.

Any way to make it do work for the last "/" in the string?

Thanks​

 

[Raven65]

You might give LastIndexOf, instead of IndexOf, a try. ;-)

 

[Azreal]

Oh, thank you. I never did this before.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Use the IO.Path class to manipulate file and folder paths. It works with forward or back slashes:

MessageBox.Show(IO.Path.GetFileName("http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/newthread.php"))

 

[bmilano]

Agreed...

The "Path" class mentioned in the previous post is a very useful class. I had written a lot of functions that do what Path does before I stumbled onto Path.

A lot of what it does could be done by hand, but it's a really nice set of functionality for dealing with directory names and file names.