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[gtk-list] Re: file selection dialog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason A. Pfeil)
Fri Oct 16 09:42:55 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu>
To: Brandon Long <blong@fiction.net>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Brandon Long wrote:
> 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:
strrchr is standard C anyway, and that's always a better choice.
>
> char *s1 = strrchr (filename, '/');
> if (s1)
> {
> filename = s1 + 1;
> }
>
> Brandon
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