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hi everyone

i have a
gchar *path = /home/tom/somefile.gz;
and i wants to get the path to that file.. (in this example ('/home/tom'
or '/home/tom/')..
is there a function ?
or how can i do that ?

thanks
tom

man dirname(3).

HTH, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

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dirname() might not be sufficiently portable, in which case you can
always implement it using strrchr(the_path, "/").

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was sticking up your ass." - John Novak, rasfwrj

| i have a
| gchar *path = /home/tom/somefile.gz;
| and i wants to get the path to that file.. (in this example ('/home/tom'
| or '/home/tom/')..
| is there a function ?
| or how can i do that ?

I don't know what you are asking.  If you already have the path of the
file as in that first statement, then what are you trying to get?  Are
you trying to just extract the path of the parent directory, such as
with:

    char parent[PATH_MAX];

    strncpy(parent,PATH_MAX-1,path);
    parent[PATH_MAX-1]=0;
    if((p=strrchr(parent,'/')))*p=0;

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Agreed. But then, OP has posted in Linux newsgroup only and Linux provides
dirname() and basename(). Otherwise I would alway go for strrchr().

Bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole      No it isn't.  L. E. J. Brouwer