last column or last field of a line

[ramana12345]

Can somebody please suggest me how do I cut the last field of a string

for example I have string

str1/str2/str3/str4/........../strN

I want to get the strN field out of the above string

 

[PHV]

man basename

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[PHV]

In ksh-like shell:
ColSep="/"
String="str1/str2/str3/str4/........../strN"
LastCol=${String##*$ColSep}
echo "$LastCol"

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[ramana12345]

PHV,

Thankyou very much your solution works,
but unfortunately it is not just a single string I am trying get, it's a column,
can you please suggest me on how to do that for column

in this case the file actually looks like

str1/str2/st3........./strN
word1/word2/word3/.............../wordM
--------------------------------
------------------------ some more lines like this

here M and N may or may not be equal

but I want to grab last field of each line get the output like

strN
wordM
....
....

Thankyou

 

[PHV]

awk -F/ '{print $NF}' /path/to/input

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[ramana12345]

PHV,

Your solution works great

awk -F/ '{print $NF}' /path/to/input

Thankyou so much