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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 14:53:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaaig97il.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6613ujh.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Mon,  31 Jan 2011 17:30:26 +0100")

> (defun basename (fname)
>   (if (or (file-directory-p fname)
>           (string-match "/$" fname))
>       (let ((dirname (directory-file-name fname))) 
>         (file-name-nondirectory dirname))
>       (file-name-nondirectory fname)))

If, as Karl suggests, your point is that you want a `basename' function,
then maybe we could add such a function (I'm really not convinced it's
worth the trouble.  Better would be to add a paragraph in the manual,
I think), but I still insist that the above definition is wrong.
It should be

  (defun file-basename (file)
    (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name file)))


-- Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31 19:53 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
2011-01-31 16:30       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 16:43         ` Karl Fogel
2011-01-31 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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