Re: how having the basename of a file or directory

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 doesn't care whether the argument is a directory
> or not, it looks only at the contents of the string.
Yes, i understood that, i am just pointing out that we should not have
to take care if string end with / or not, like shell command basename.

basename /home/thierry/riri
riri
basename /home/thierry/riri/
riri

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