Getting everything to the right of a / as a string

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#1

Hello All,

I need to get a string from a variable. I need to get everything from the right of the “/”.

example: server/share

So basically i just want the word share.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Galen

#2

Maybe this will work.

set text_ to "server/share"

set tids to text item delimiters
try
	set text item delimiters to "/"
	set share_name to last text item of text_
	set text item delimiters to tids
on error
	set text item delimiters to tids
end try
share_name

– Rob

#3

Thanks for the reply!!! This will work great. For some reason i cannot figure out what that script is doing. Is there a way to do it using offset?

#4

Sure, it can be done using offset.

set text_ to "server/share"
try
	set offset_ to offset of "/" in text_
	set share_name to text (offset_ + 1) thru end of text_
on error e
	display dialog e
end try

– Rob

#5

Using AppleScript’s text item delimiters is a novel and efficient way of handling string objects, but it is a little non-intuitive.

What basically happens is when you ask for ‘text items’ of a string, AppleScript uses the current ‘text item delimiters’ to break the string into chunks where each occurrence of the delimiter marks a chunk boundary. You get a list as a result.

In the example of “server/share” as the input and ‘/’ as the ‘text item delimiters’, asking for ‘text items of’ the string returns a list {“server”, “share”}

Rob’s code simply returns the last item in the list, in this case “share”.

If the delimiter had been set to the character ‘e’, the result would be {“s”, “rv”, “r/shar”, “”}

If you want to use the ‘offset’ model you can:

set theText to "server/share"
set slashPos to offset of "/" in theText -- returns 7
set share_name to characters (slashPos + 1) through -1 of theText as string

In this case I’m using ‘characters x through y’ of the string to extract a substring. Providing negative numbers specifies the character position from the end of the string rather than from the beginning so the above code returns characters 8 through the last character of the input string.

#6

Sweet thank you all. This will help to reduce the size of my current script big time. Thanks Again!!

#7

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