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  • N 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 "/" :(

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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?

    Come online at:- jubinc@skype

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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. :)

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      _splitpath() is better option.

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      • N Naveen

        Don Box wrote:

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

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

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        Naveen wrote:

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

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

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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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          You may use PathFindFileName() like this:

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

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

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            • Z zengkun100

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

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

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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?

                  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).

                    Come online at:- jubinc@skype

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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).

                      Come online at:- jubinc@skype

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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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                        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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                        • N 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.

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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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                            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

                              A Chinese VC++ programmer

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                              zengkun100 wrote:

                              Thank you Rajesh

                              You're welcome. :)

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