Read text after last backslash

Question

I am would like to read in the text after the last backslash from my text file. Currently I have:

$data=Get-Content \"C:\\temp\\users.txt\"

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Answer 1

Since you are dealing with file paths, you can use GetFileName:

$data=Get-Content "C:\temp\users.txt"
$name=[System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($data)