1 /* Libiberty basename. Like basename, but is not overridden by the
3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of the libiberty library.
6 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
19 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
23 @deftypefn Replacement {const char*} lbasename (const char *@var{name})
25 Given a pointer to a string containing a typical pathname
26 (@samp{/usr/src/cmd/ls/ls.c} for example), returns a pointer to the
27 last component of the pathname (@samp{ls.c} in this case). The
28 returned pointer is guaranteed to lie within the original
29 string. This latter fact is not true of many vendor C
30 libraries, which return special strings or modify the passed
31 strings for particular input.
33 In particular, the empty string returns the same empty string,
34 and a path ending in @code{/} returns the empty string after it.
41 #include "libiberty.h"
42 #include "safe-ctype.h"
43 #include "filenames.h"
46 lbasename (const char *name
)
50 #if defined (HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM)
51 /* Skip over a possible disk name. */
52 if (ISALPHA (name
[0]) && name
[1] == ':')
56 for (base
= name
; *name
; name
++)
57 if (IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (*name
))