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  • D 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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    Naveen
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    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 "/" :(

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      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]

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      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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      • Z 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

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        Don Box
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        _splitpath() is better option.

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          Don Box wrote:

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

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

          nave [OpenedFileFinder]

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          Rajesh R Subramanian
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          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

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          • Z zengkun100

            Suppose the full path is : C:\Program Files\codeproject.txt I want to extract the file name codeproject.txt. Of course I can use CString class to find the last '\', and then Mid to get the filename, but is there some API can do this daily job? Thank you :)

            A Chinese VC++ programmer

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            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

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            • Z zengkun100

              Suppose the full path is : C:\Program Files\codeproject.txt I want to extract the file name codeproject.txt. Of course I can use CString class to find the last '\', and then Mid to get the filename, but is there some API can do this daily job? Thank you :)

              A Chinese VC++ programmer

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              fd0129002
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              #include <Shlwapi.h>; #pragma comment(lib, "shlwapi.lib") LPTSTR lpszFileName = PathFindFileName(szPath);

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

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              • Z zengkun100

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

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                Rajesh R Subramanian
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                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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                • R 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

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

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                  • D Don Box

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

                    Come online at:- jubinc@skype

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                    Don Box wrote:

                    Do u have any Skype/Yahoo id?

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

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                    • N Naveen

                      Don Box wrote:

                      Do u have any Skype/Yahoo id?

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

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

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                        • Z zengkun100

                          Suppose the full path is : C:\Program Files\codeproject.txt I want to extract the file name codeproject.txt. Of course I can use CString class to find the last '\', and then Mid to get the filename, but is there some API can do this daily job? Thank you :)

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                          Nitheesh George
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                          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.

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                            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.

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                            Rajesh R Subramanian
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                            Nitheesh George wrote:

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

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

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                            • R 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

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                              zengkun100
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                              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

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                              • Z zengkun100

                                Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

                                PathFindFileName()

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

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                                zengkun100 wrote:

                                Thank you Rajesh

                                You're welcome. :)

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

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