Question

In MATLAB there’s a nice function called fileparts that takes a full file path and parses it into path, filename (without extension), and extension as in the following example from the documentation:

file = 'H:\user4\matlab\classpath.txt';

[pathstr, name, ext] = fileparts(file)

>> pathstr = H:\user4\matlab

>> name = classpath

>> ext = .txt

So I was wondering if there’s an equivalent function in any standard C++ or C libraries that I could use? Or would I have to implement this myself? I realize it’s fairly simple, but I figured if there’s already something pre-made that would be preferable.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Some possible solutions, depending on your OS:

• Visual C++ _splitpath function
• Win32 Shell Path Handling Functions such as PathFindExtension, PathFindFileName, PathStripPath, PathRemoveExtension, PathRemoveFileSpec