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1 /* basename.c -- return the last element in a file name
3 Copyright (C) 1990, 1998-2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2018 Free Software
4 Foundation, Inc.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program 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
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #include <config.h>
21 #include "dirname.h"
23 #include <string.h>
24 #include "xalloc.h"
25 #include "xstrndup.h"
27 char *
28 base_name (char const *name)
30 char const *base = last_component (name);
31 size_t length;
33 /* If there is no last component, then name is a file system root or the
34 empty string. */
35 if (! *base)
36 return xstrndup (name, base_len (name));
38 /* Collapse a sequence of trailing slashes into one. */
39 length = base_len (base);
40 if (ISSLASH (base[length]))
41 length++;
43 /* On systems with drive letters, "a/b:c" must return "./b:c" rather
44 than "b:c" to avoid confusion with a drive letter. On systems
45 with pure POSIX semantics, this is not an issue. */
46 if (FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (base))
48 char *p = xmalloc (length + 3);
49 p[0] = '.';
50 p[1] = '/';
51 memcpy (p + 2, base, length);
52 p[length + 2] = '\0';
53 return p;
56 /* Finally, copy the basename. */
57 return xstrndup (base, length);