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Modifying a String

Modifying a String

Modifying a String

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I am not sure if there is a way to accomplish this, but I am trying to get the title of a document by knowing the filename.  For example, I have this filename:

C:/fdfd/fdfdse/sfsf/PART.dwg

Is there a way to 'get rid of' eveything in the string except for the PART.dwg?  Note that the length of the string is ever changing so I cannot hard code it to subtract 20 characters from the left.  Thanks in advance for any help.

RE: Modifying a String

Depending on which version of VBA you have, you may have at your disposal the InStrRev function.  If so, you can use that to locate the last slash -- forward slash and back slash are not the same character -- and from that location, use the mid function to extract the balance of the string.

RE: Modifying a String

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Thanks, I will give that a try.

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