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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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  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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