From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how having the basename of a file or directory
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:03:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hdl5o99.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc6xwene.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:28:37 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/directory")
>> should return ==> directory
>
> It does.
Not really.
It does if PATH doesn't end with "/" otherwise no, it's why
(file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name PATH))
is needed as Stephen said.
You see, it's confusing ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 7:25 how having the basename of a file or directory Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 8:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-31 8:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 10:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 11:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-01-31 12:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 12:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 12:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-31 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-31 16:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 16:43 ` Karl Fogel
2011-01-31 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-31 20:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-01 11:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-01 15:37 ` Karl Fogel
2011-02-01 16:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-01 16:52 ` Karl Fogel
2011-02-02 12:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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