Given the full path, the API should give me the base file name. E.g., “/foo/bar.txt” –> “bar.txt”.
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Given the full path, the API should give me the base file name. E.g., “/foo/bar.txt” –> “bar.txt”.
There’s basename() .
Feed it with a path (in the form of a
char*) and it will return you the base name (that is the name of the file/directory you want) in the form of anotherchar*.EDIT:
I forgot to tell you that the POSIX version of
basename()modifies its argument. If you want to avoid this you can use the GNU version ofbasename()prepending this in your source:In exchange this version of
basename()will return an empty string if you feed it with, e.g./usr/bin/because of the trailing slash.