/* Return the basename of a pathname. Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the libiberty library. Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. $Id: basename.c,v 1.1 1994/01/28 12:42:56 pk Exp $ */ /* NAME basename -- return pointer to last component of a pathname SYNOPSIS char *basename (char *name) DESCRIPTION Given a pointer to a string containing a typical pathname (/usr/src/cmd/ls/ls.c for example), returns a pointer to the last component of the pathname ("ls.c" in this case). BUGS Presumes a UNIX style path with UNIX style separators. */ char * basename (name) char *name; { char *base = name; while (*name) { if (*name++ == '/') { base = name; } } return (base); }