Hello

So I haven't been able to find a way to split the symbol that holds a file path to get the result of only the filename that can be assigned to a message.

the filename is needed to be used in the package below it which builds a file path for the sequence data. All of the writing of files works in that aspect of this abstraction. The problem is all of the new data is written to the "defaultproject" message. Where the message should contain "test" that is what im not to sure about.

I tried a few variations of list-split but was not able to get it to work. I need to get only "test" from the second inlet then assign "test" to the "defautproject" message.

Please help.

I hope the image is readable :/

I think a good way to do it would be to use [list fromsymbol] which outputs a list of the corresponding ASCII characters. Then you need to see where the slashes are (ASCII 47) and split the list to get only the part after the last slash. A bit tricky but it should work.

@RetroMaximus @dom1817 is correct.
Direct tools existed in extended but in vanilla you can do it with this abstraction...... s2l.zip
[s2l] needs [s2f] in the same folder for it to work.
You will need to use it twice something like this......
..... although you can use [list split] instead of [unpack]

David.

Thanks for the tips I was able to figure it out. All is good the sky is no longer falling for the time being.

If anyone is interested here is the working abstraction

OBFindFilenameFromPathWitoutExtention.pd

maybe only for future reference: with externals the solution i always use is [splitfilename] from iemlib (i think)

This is a vanilla version of the external @Johnny-Mauser mentioned.
vsplitfilename.pd
vsplitfilename-help.pd