May not be what you are looking for, but this works:
import os
s='setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" ' \
'/assets/chars/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";'
fname=os.path.basename(s.split()[-1])
BTW-It does depend on the file/path being the last item
on the line.
Larry Bates
sheffdog wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I often find myself cleaning up strings like the following:
>
> setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" /assets/chars/
> /boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";
>
> Using regular expressions, the best I can do so far is using the re.sub
> command but it still takes two lines. Can I do this in one line? Or
> should I be approaching this differently? All I want to end up with is
> the file name "ppbhat.tga".
>
> Python Code:
> lines[indexC]=re.sub("[\s,\S,]*/", "", lines[indexC])
> lines[indexC]=re.sub(".tga[\s,\S,]*", ".tga", lines[indexC])
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> /\/\ason S
>
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