Getting file name from a file path

Hello
I have got a String called filePath and it holds: "C:\Documents and Settings\paul\MyDocuments\nihtd.txt".
What I want do is to have another String variable called fileName that will use the 'filePath' variable to return the name on the file (that been "nihtd.txt" for the example given) but it must work with any file path for any file type.
Can anyone help? I have tried various ways but with no success.
Many thanks
Paul

Hmm, I just ran across another distinction between doing this by creating a File object as opposed to doing this by analysing the String: performance.
I always thought that creation of file objects is relatively cheap, since the Filesystem is not actually accessed when you create a new File instance. Apparently that is not true, at least not if you are on Windows and the file is on another server. Something like new File(\\server\share\file.txt) will create network traffic on Windows. So if you only meant to use the File class for parsing text, you might want to think again.
I would be interested to know how the FileSystem class is implemented on different platforms. Do you know where I can read up on that?
Cheers, HJK

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          set sel to sel as string
          set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID
set the clipboard to "file://" & POSIX path of sel
end tell

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