From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
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 10:29:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4o8payaa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y661h2ju.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:59:01 +0100")
> Yes thanks, that's work too, but it would be nice to do not have to take
> care of that:
> (file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/directory")
> should return ==> directory
It does.
> (file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/file")
> should return ==> file
It does.
> So modifying `file-name-nondirectory' or creating a basename function
> or macro like:
> (defun basename (fname)
> (if (file-directory-p fname)
> (let ((dirname (directory-file-name fname)))
> (file-name-nondirectory dirname))
> (file-name-nondirectory fname)))
That won't work on (basename "/non/existing/thing/").
You really want to use (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name fname))
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 15:29 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
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 [this message]
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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