Regex To Extract Filename From A Path

A regular expression to extract the filename from a given path. This is called filename extraction, and quite simply, it is extracting an element that matches a pattern from a string.

/[ \w-]+\./g

Matches:

  • /path/to/regex.pattern
  • \path\to\regex.pattern
  • \\path\to\regex.pattern
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Non-matches:

  • regex-pattern
  • regex pattern
  • regexpattern

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