Extracting file name from full name

From: andrewmchorney@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:07 -0700

Hello

I have a string that contains a full path and file name. What is the easiest way to extract the file name? For example the path is /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt.

Andrew
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