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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>> Antony Scriven wrote:
>>> is also the reason why Lasse's solution (using
>>> String.prototype.lastIndexOf) is preferable IMHO. --Antony
>> http://foo.example/bar
> 
> My "solution" was very hardcoded to the format that the OP used, i.e.,
> ending in "/somename.html".
> Since that was all the examples he gave, and no real textual explanation,

It was clear enough to me that they wanted to know the last path component 
of a URI.

> it's impossible to generalize further.

Well, it wasn't.

> Maybe I should have said that :)

It was clear to me that your code was limited, however I saw and still see 
no good reason for doing that when the general solution – the one using 
RegExp, which was being asked for – is so obvious.


PointedEars
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