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Pakhi
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Filename.replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, '') -: explain the expression

Hi can anyone make me understand the below expression. FileName.replace(/^.*[\/]/, ‘’)
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Pakhi
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Hey can you explain this regex please if you know

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bojanvelevski
Valued Contributor
4 years ago

Sure.

  . - matches any character except a line break
  * - means 0 or more of the preceding token
  [ ] - means a character set
  \/ - is practically an escaped forward slash character - /