How to get file name from a full path

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. :-\

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Rajesh R Subramanian

You may use PathFindFileName() like this:

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

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fd0129002

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

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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.

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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]

Nitheesh George

Hi, char szFilePath[MAX_PATH] = {"C:\\Program Files\\codeproject.txt"}; char szFileNameOnly = strrchr(szFilePath,'\\'); if(szFileNameOnly) szFileNameOnly++; now szFileName points to "codeproject.txt" i think this works fine for u.

Rajesh R Subramanian

Nitheesh George wrote:

char szFileNameOnly = strrchr(szFilePath,'\\');

Good, but a small correction. strrchr returns a character pointer. :)

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zengkun100

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

PathFindFileName()

Thank you Rajesh R Subramanian I think this is the simplest way I have ever seen :-D

A Chinese VC++ programmer

Rajesh R Subramanian

zengkun100 wrote:

Thank you Rajesh

You're welcome. :)

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