lastPathComponent

Declaration

var lastPathComponent: String { get }

Discussion

Path components are alphanumeric strings delineated by the path separator (slash “/”) or the beginning or end of the path string. Multiple path separators at the end of the string are stripped.

The following table illustrates the effect of lastPathComponent on a variety of different paths:

Note that this method only works with file paths (not, for example, string representations of URLs).

See Also

Working with Paths

• path(withComponents:)
• pathComponents
• completePath(into:caseSensitive:matchesInto:filterTypes:)
• fileSystemRepresentation
• getFileSystemRepresentation(_:maxLength:)
• isAbsolutePath
• pathExtension
• abbreviatingWithTildeInPath
• appendingPathComponent(_:)
• appendingPathExtension(_:)
• deletingLastPathComponent
• deletingPathExtension
• expandingTildeInPath
• resolvingSymlinksInPath
• standardizingPath