Golang : Get remaining text such as id or filename after last segment in URL path

Problem:

Retrieving the last segment/part or the remaining text after a slash in the URL or filename in a path can be challenging for newbies in programming. Such as:

123456 from http://www.socketloop.com/123456

or

image.png from c:\windows\image.png

How to extract the desired information from an URL or file path?

Solution:

This is known as extracting the base of a URL or file path. Use the path package base() function to extract the last segment or remaining text after the last slash.

Here you go!

 package main

 import (
  "fmt"
  "path"
  "path/filepath"
 )

 func main() {

  url := "http://www.abcdef.com/12345678"

  base := path.Base(url)
  fmt.Println(base)

  // NOTE: filepath.Base() will WORK with `\`
  // provided this program runs on Windows platform
  // if this program executes on Non-windows or play.golang.org
  // it will show the entire string instead of
  // the desire image.exe
  // IT IS NOT A BUG!
  
  windowsFilePath := `c:\windows\image.exe`
  imageFile := filepath.Base(windowsFilePath)
  fmt.Println(imageFile)

 }

Output:

12345678

image.exe