Method to obtain filename apart from path

Question

I have a string
String myString = C:\foo\bar\myFile.txt;I wish to obtain only the value myFile.txt, that is the name of the File.
I use the File object
File fileObj = new File( myString );
String fileName = fileObj.getName();Running this in one environment yeilds the desired "myFile.txt". But in another environment it yeilds "C:\foo\bar\myFile.txt".
How can this be?
Thanks for any help

Answer 1

I'm going to assume what may be obvious and that is that the method works only within the current operating system. In another words, it's not a "all knowing" method that can parse a filename from a string using the separator characters of each operatiing system "\" and "/". So it's not an effective means to accomplish what I need when the information is going from one OS, to another...
Yes - It's in the API docs which I'm reading now. I don't know why I made this mistake, unless I was confused by the following..."This class presents an abstract, system-independent view of hierarchial pathnames". But immediately following it says that the prefix strings to the filename are system-dependent.
Edited by: nantucket on May 16, 2008 1:32 PM
Edited by: nantucket on May 16, 2008 1:36 PM