Get only file name from file input on internet explorer

Question

I need to return only the file name from an HTML input file.

The JavaScript code im using to get

Answer 1

You can try this

var path = document.getElementById("whatever").value;
var fileName = path.match(/[^\/\\]+$/);
console.log(fileName);

Answer 2

var path = document.getElementById("whatever").value;
var filename = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);

This will give you everything after the last /, but is also compatible with a lack of /s. In case you also need to deal with \ as the lovely path separator, you can always use this first:

path.replace(/\\/g, "/")

Answer 3

I hope this works.

var fullFileName = document.getElementById("whatever").value;
var fileName = fullFileName.substr(fullFileName.lastIndexOf("\\")+1, fullFileName.length);

Here is the fiddle for that Fiddle