Problems getting just the file name using an upload component

Question

Hi everyone, I'm using an upload component on my page and I need to get just the name of the image/file in order to store it in a database, I used the code of the tutorial and It works fine on mozilla but the problem comes when I use Internet Explorer because I get the whole path of the image/file and not just the name of it. I believe the browser is the cause of the problem, I already checked the http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/, but I don't understand how to use anything, and not even the code of the tutorial works eventhough it is specified in comments:
// some browsers return complete path name, some don't
   // make sure we only have the file name
   String justFileName = uploadedFileName.substring
      ( uploadedFileName.lastIndexOf(File.separatorChar) + 1 );If anybody could helpme solve this problem I'd appreciate it so much
Regards
Yes
Message was edited by:
Yesenia

Answer 1

Let's walk through the code...
File.separatorChar is the system-dependent default hame-separator charac tor. This field is initialized to contain the first character of the system property file.separator. On UNIX systems, the value of this field is '/'; on Microsoft Windows systems it is '\\'.
String justFileName =
// get the substring of uploadedFileName
// that starts after the last separator (\ or /)
uploadedFileName.substring
uploadedFileName.lastIndexOf(File.separatorChar) + 1
You say that this statement is returning the complete path name, for example:
C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documentos\Mis im��genes\Im��genes de
muestra\Puesta de sol.jpgSo, we can make an assumption that the File.separatorChar must not be \, or else the statement would return Puesta de sol.jpg.
We know that it works for you on Solaris/Mozilla.
We also know that Misha has tested the statement in IE and it works for him.
(And I know that this tutorial was tested by a software engineer and a quality engineer, and it worked for both of them, as well as the tutorial author and a peer).
So, what is different here??????
Can you print out File.separatorChar and see if it is '\\' (I think the first \ is an escape char, that is \\ (escape-escape) is the equivalent of \ (backslash)) or '\'?
When you run it on another machine, how are you deploying it on the other machine? Is it deployed to Solaris and running on Windows?
Have you tested to see if it works on a Windows machine using Mozilla?
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on the problem.