Re: Newbie Tcl Question

khannu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

In Tcl, how can I extract the file name from a string that contains
the fullpath to the file, like so: C:\results\log\file.txt

How can I retrieve the 'file.txt' substring from the above string?

file tail {C:\results\log\file.txt}

HTH
Stephan

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