[Zope] Cleaning Filenames from Windows

[Dylan Reinhardt]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 15:03, Edward Pollard wrote:
> I have a form with which one can upload images.
> 
> However, Internet Explorer for PC is a very clever program, and instead 
> of putting the filename in the 'filename' attribute of the request 
> object, it puts the whole local path of the file. This of course is 
> unsuitable for a filename on the server.

And for any remaining IE6 users who may happen to value their privacy. 

> 
> However, due the the escape nature of the backslash, I'm having a 
> tremendous problem writing a function to clean up this mess. I am 
> certain I used to have a code snippit to do this, but cannot find it.

I assume you want a regex that captures everything after the final
backslash?

How about (untested):

'.*\\([\w|\d]+)'

HTH,

Dylan