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[gtk-list] Re: file selection dialog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Long)
Thu Oct 15 19:22:48 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:22:03 -0700
From: Brandon Long <blong@fiction.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.981016053544.2090e-100000@ume.pht.co.jp>; from Scott Stone on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 05:36:23AM +0900
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On 10/16/98 Scott Stone uttered the following other thing:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 padraig@turing.idc.ul.ie wrote:
>
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > when you collect the filename from the file selection dialog using
> >
> > filename = gtk_file_selection_get_filename( GTK_FILE_SELECTION(fs) );
> >
> > it returns the full path of the filename. my question is: is there any
> > quick way to get just the filename (i.e. without the path) or do you
> > have to extract it (from the longer string) yourself?
>
> It's easy, just:
>
> char *s1=rindex(filename,'/');
> s1++;
>
> now, s1 is your base filename, without the path.
is rindex deprecated? If so, strrchr would be a better bet:
char *s1 = strrchr (filename, '/');
if (s1)
{
filename = s1 + 1;
}
Brandon
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