Alfred Regex to extract just the filename?

[joeynotjoe]

Hello!

 

I'm writing a workflow based on a file action, and at one point in there, I would like to use the replace / regex function to extract just the filename, without the full path or the extension.

 

I've tried googling and trying a bunch of options, but I haven't had the time to fully ingest Regex properly yet, and nothing I've found has worked. Anyone care to help me out? :-D 

 

Here's an example of a full path I'm working with:

~/Desktop/Testing.mov

I would like to just extract "Testing". I hope one day I can look back at how silly it was to ask such a basic question like this. Thanks so much in advance!

[vitor]

This should work: .*\/(.*)\..* in the regex, and replace with $1.

 

Explanation: .*\/ is “everything until the last /” (i.e. the path without the filename); (.*) is “capture anything” (the parenthesis are the “capture” part which will then be output by $1); \..* is “everything from the last . until the end of the string” (i.e. the extension).

[joeynotjoe]

Worked like a charm, and I really appreciate the explanation! Why my search attempts to find this answer failed me was due to me not including anything in the replace section. Duh.

 

Cheers!

 

 

[FroZen_X]

2 hours ago, joeynotjoe said:

Worked like a charm, and I really appreciate the explanation! Why my search attempts to find this answer failed me was due to me not including anything in the replace section. Duh.

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

This site might help you like it helped me: http://regexr.com/

I use it to test Regex and it has good explanations.

[vitor]

4 hours ago, FroZen_X said:

This site might help you like it helped me: http://regexr.com/

I use it to test Regex and it has good explanations.

 

It’s also the site recommended in the Alfred documentation.

[FroZen_X]

19 hours ago, vitor said:

 

It’s also the site recommended in the Alfred documentation.

oh ok, I didn't know that lol I found that one the other day as I had to test a regex for a keyboard maestro macro

But that's cool