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/* 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. */
/*
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.
*/
#include "ansidecl.h"
#include "libiberty.h"
char *
basename (name)
char *name;
{
char *base = name;
while (*name)
{
if (*name++ == '/')
{
base = name;
}
}
return (base);
}