Truncate File Path

I''d move through the characters (starting at the last char) and look for the ''\'' character.. then take whatever is after that and do whatever with it..

well, you could grab the length of the entire string, start at the end and copy characters backwards into another array until you reach a /. Then you just reverse your temporary array and, bingo, you have the file!

c:\blah\programs\whatever\gamedev.exe -->
exe.vedemag -->
gamedev.exe!

Kings of Chaos

ps: yah, what falkone said ^_^

[edited by - n0ob on March 19, 2003 9:37:08 PM]

Im new to string modification. What would I use to read the string backwards?

bool GetFileName(char *filePath, char *fileName)
// IN: filePath is a valid string containing the complete path.
// OUT: fileName is a char array containing at least as many characters as the file name, plus one.
// OUT: returns true if operation succeeded, false otherwise.
{
     char *temp = filePath;
     
     unsigned long index = strlen(temp);
     bool isValid = false;
     while(index >= 0)
     {
	 if(temp[index] == '/' || temp[index] == '\\')
         {
             isValid = true;
             break;
         }
         --index;
     }
  
     if(!isValid)
         return false;
   
     index ++;
    
     unsigned long index2 = 0;
     while(temp[index])
         fileName[index2++] = temp[index++];
     fileName[index2] = 0;
    
     return true;
}    

That's just off the top. I'm sure it's not the most efficient way, and someone will probably come along and suggest something based on the STL, but AFAIK, that works (with perhaps minor modifications).

Later,
ZE.



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[edited by - zealouselixir on March 19, 2003 10:01:16 PM]

Doesnt that just return if the filename is valid? I need it to truncate the filepath so it just leaves the actual file to a a char.

Example:
char *filepath="c:\blah\blah2\blah3\gamedev.exe"
filepath="gamedev.exe" (after function)

No, it doesn''t just return if the filename is valid. It copies the filename from the filepath into a new string. To get the filename back in the original string, just

sprintf(filePath, fileName);