/* $NiH: basename.c,v 1.12 2002/09/16 12:42:28 dillo Exp $ basename.c -- return the last component of a pathname Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Dieter Baron The author can be contacted at This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include char * basename(char *name) { char *p; int len; if (name == NULL || *name == '\0') return "."; len = strlen(name); if (strspn(name, "/") == len) return name + len-1; while (name[len-1] == '/') name[--len] = '\0'; p = strrchr(name, '/'); if (p) { if (*p == '\0') return p; else return p+1; } return name; }