How can I remove the parent folders in an array of paths?

Question

I am using the following code in order to retrieve sub folder names from the path declared. This works fine but how do I then remove the path name so that the array is a list of just folder names?

var myPath = Folder ("Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design");
var folders = getFolders (myPath); 

function getFolders(sourceFolder) {
var folderArray = new Array();
var sFolders = sourceFolder.getFiles ();
var len = sFolders.length;
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    var sFolder = sFolders[i];
        if (sFolder instanceof Folder) {
            folderArray.push(sFolder);
        }
    }
return folderArray;
}

Instead of returning:

Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design/One
Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design/Two
Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design/Three
Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design/Four

I need:

One
Two
Three
Four

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423376/how-to-get-the-file-name-from-a-full-path-using-javascript — Dan Goodspeed, Oct 14 '13 at 16:20
possible duplicate of [How to pull the file name from a url using javascript/jquery?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1302306/how-to-pull-the-file-name-from-a-url-using-javascript-jquery) — Bergi, Oct 14 '13 at 16:21
Although I appreciate the answers given, I don't get how to incorporate the solutions into the for loop I gave. Answer 1 seems like it would be a process of creating the string on each iteration and then split it? a bit confused on how to do that. Other answers point to Regexp. Which, if I got the expression right to begin with, I would still need to understand how to incorporate it into a for loop. — dimmech, Oct 14 '13 at 17:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '13 at 16:20

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You could use split() like this, assuming there are no other slashes towards the end.

var sample = 'Z:/My File System/Me/Work Files/Design/Four'.split('/')
var result = sample[sample.length - 1]

answered Oct 14 '13 at 16:20

Eric Hotinger

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '13 at 09:06

You could implement something like this (assuming you can modify the Folder prototype, and it stores the path as this.path):

Folder.prototype.basename = function () {
    return this.path.split('/').pop();
};

You would then append the base names to the array:

folderArray.push(sFolder.basename());

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '13 at 16:20

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Regexp the string. Start at the end, and work backward until the first '/'

answered Oct 14 '13 at 16:20

caleb.breckon

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How can I remove the parent folders in an array of paths?

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