How to get file name from a full path

Maxwell Chen

Since you want to use API (Windows SDK), the function below meets your need. But CFile is even convenient for you though.

BOOL GetFileInformationByHandleEx(
HANDLE hFile,
FILE_INFO_BY_HANDLE_CLASS cls,
LPVOID info,
DWORD bufsize
);
// ...
FILE_NAME_INFO MyStruct = {0};
bool b = GetFileInformationByHandleEx(hFile, FileNameInfo, &MyStruct, sizeof(FILE_NAME_INFO));

Maxwell Chen

Naveen

PathStripPath()

nave [OpenedFileFinder]

zengkun100

OK, Thank you Maxwell Chen :) Both of the ways you suggested are convenient. But the question is all of them need a file HANDLE. I just want to get the filename given its fullpath.

A Chinese VC++ programmer

zengkun100

Thank you nave! I think I have got the answer:_splitpath :)

A Chinese VC++ programmer

Abhay Menon

You can use the CFileFind CFileFind cf; cf.FindFile("C:\\Program Files\\codeproject.txt"); cf.FindNext(); CString strFileName = cf.GetFileName(); Rgds Abhay..

Don Box

Though some API's have been mentioned above by our codeproject friends, u can also write such functions. If u know 'C' language very well and ofcourse, its basics (people having lot of experience also doesn't know the basics), u can easily write such functions. Though u got the API, still I'll strongly recommend u to try writing such function.

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Naveen

Don Box wrote:

still I'll strongly recommend u to try writing such function.

Less u write, less will be the bugs...

nave [OpenedFileFinder]

Don Box

If basics are not clear and don't have confidence, then better don't write (such simple function) and drop the programming profession.

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zengkun100

I do have written a function to do make the job done, but I still want to know is there some exist functions can do this job for me. :)

A Chinese VC++ programmer

Naveen

cool man..I just said one truth regrding the programming field. How ever I still remeber one bug while trying to extract the file name from path. We were extracting the file name by reverse finding the "\". But later a bug was reported and reason was that, in one secnario in the path input to that function, instead of "\", seperator was "/" :(

nave [OpenedFileFinder]

Don Box

That's right Naveen. BTW, how many yrs of experience do u have in VC++? Do u have any Skype/Yahoo id?

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Don Box

_splitpath() is better option.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Naveen wrote:

Less u write, less will be the bugs...

Write no code and you'll have absolutely no bugs. :-\

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

Rajesh R Subramanian

You may use PathFindFileName() like this:

TCHAR \*szPath = \_T("C:\\\\Program Files\\\\codeproject.txt");
AfxMessageBox(PathFindFileName(szPath));

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

fd0129002

#include <Shlwapi.h>; #pragma comment(lib, "shlwapi.lib") LPTSTR lpszFileName = PathFindFileName(szPath);

============ Einstein Seeing is believing.

Rajesh R Subramanian

zengkun100 wrote:

I think I have got the answer:_splitpath

MSDN Says: _splitpath is deprecated because more secure versions are available, see _splitpath_s, _wsplitpath_s.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

Naveen

Yes. but the damn requirments doesnt allow me to be like that :(

nave [OpenedFileFinder]

Naveen

Don Box wrote:

Do u have any Skype/Yahoo id?

Yahoo only... Have send my chat id to your mail box. check

nave [OpenedFileFinder]

Don Box

Naveen wrote:

Yahoo only... Have send my chat id to your mail box. check

To my which e-mail id? If it is skype, then there's no mail box for this. Its my skype id (just for chatting).

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Naveen

No I clicked "email" option in the message board. My chat id is nave432@yahoo.com

nave [OpenedFileFinder]