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- /* Return the basename of a pathname.
- Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This file is part of the libiberty library.
- Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Library General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
- not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
- Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
- /*
-
- NAME
-
- basename -- return pointer to last component of a pathname
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- char *basename (char *name)
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- Given a pointer to a string containing a typical pathname
- (/usr/src/cmd/ls/ls.c for example), returns a pointer to the
- last component of the pathname ("ls.c" in this case).
-
- BUGS
-
- Presumes a UNIX style path with UNIX style separators.
- */
-
-
- char *
- basename (name)
- char *name;
- {
- char *base = name;
-
- while (*name)
- {
- if (*name++ == '/')
- {
- base = name;
- }
- }
- return (base);
- }
-