Removing Path of a Folder, leaving only Folder Name from Variable?

Questions & Suggestions
1

Hi,

I looking a way to remove text, specifically the path of a folder from a variable, leaving behind only the folder name behind.

For example:
/Users/mac110/Desktop/Jobs/21389_BoringPrintProject

I just want the name of folder that I'm in, so "21389_BoringPrintProject" is what I want in the variable.

I kinda want to use JavaScript to perhaps combine the .split JavaScript that I been using for my Job Number variables, however that's the only one I know of.

3

Perhaps this kind of thing, in an Execute JS action which captures the file path from a KM variable ?

(() => {
    'use strict';

    const main = () => {
        // const 
        //     fp = Application('Keyboard Maestro Engine')
        //     .getvariable('varName')
        const fp = '/Users/mac110/Desktop/Jobs/21389_BoringPrintProject';

        return last(fp.split('/'));
    };

    // --------------------- GENERIC ---------------------

    // last :: [a] -> a
    const last = xs =>
        // The last item of a list.
        0 < xs.length ? (
            xs.slice(-1)[0]
        ) : undefined;

    return main();
})();
4

For testing whether that last element is a folder or a file you can use things like:

// https://github.com/RobTrew/prelude-jxa

ObjC.import('AppKit')

// doesDirectoryExist :: FilePath -> IO Bool
const doesDirectoryExist = fp => {
    const ref = Ref();
    return $.NSFileManager.defaultManager
        .fileExistsAtPathIsDirectory(
            $(fp)
            .stringByStandardizingPath, ref
        ) && ref[0];
};

// doesFileExist :: FilePath -> IO Bool
const doesFileExist = fp => {
    const ref = Ref();
    return $.NSFileManager.defaultManager
        .fileExistsAtPathIsDirectory(
            $(fp)
            .stringByStandardizingPath, ref
        ) && 1 !== ref[0];
};
5

Have you tried using the KM Get File Attribute action, which also works with folders?