Question

I have the following string:

string path = "C:\Users\Username\Desktop\FileName.pdf";

I need to take off FileName.pdf and put in a string variable called fileName.

The code has to be generic in a sense that anytime i get path, i start
going from the end of the string down to the first backslash.

I’m using C#

Answer 1

You can use System.IO.Path to manipulate a path.

GetFileName Returns the file name and extension of the specified path string.

For completeness here’s the code:

string fileName = Path.GetFileName(path);