How to get file name from a full path

[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. :)

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