Re: how having the basename of a file or directory

[Andreas Schwab]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> (file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/directory")
>>>>> should return ==> directory
>>>>
>>>> It does.
>>> Not really.
>>> It does if PATH doesn't end with "/" otherwise no, it's why
>>
>> file-name-nondirectory doesn't care whether the argument is a directory
>> or not, it looks only at the contents of the string.
> Yes, i understood that, i am just pointing out that we should not have
> to take care if string end with / or not, like shell command basename.

file-name-nondirectory is not basename.  The empty string is a valid
file name in Emacs.

Andreas.

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