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1 /* Libiberty basename. Like basename, but is not overridden by the
2 system C library.
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., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
19 Boston, MA 02110-1301, 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.
36 @end deftypefn
40 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
41 #include "config.h"
42 #endif
43 #include "ansidecl.h"
44 #include "libiberty.h"
45 #include "safe-ctype.h"
46 #include "filenames.h"
48 const char *
49 lbasename (const char *name)
51 const char *base;
53 #if defined (HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM)
54 /* Skip over a possible disk name. */
55 if (ISALPHA (name[0]) && name[1] == ':')
56 name += 2;
57 #endif
59 for (base = name; *name; name++)
60 if (IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (*name))
61 base = name + 1;
63 return base;