Remove Part of String Before the Last Forward Slash

Question

The program I am currently working on retrieves URLs from a website and puts them into a list. What I want to get is the last section of the URL.

So, if the first elemen

Answer 1

Just use string.split:

url = "/some/url/with/a/file.html"

print url.split("/")[-1]

# Result should be "file.html"

split gives you an array of strings that were separated by "/". The [-1] gives you the last element in the array, which is what you want.