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How do I strip unwanted characters from a string?

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shirls

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Hiya

Basically I want to strip the string (D:\parts pics finished\Dcp_1187.jpg) so that I am left with just the file name "Dcp_1187.jpg".

Any help would be brill :)

Shirl
 
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$myFile = basename("D:\parts pics finished\Dcp_1187.jpg");

$myFile now contains "Dcp_1187.jpg"
 
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