Filename problem solved!

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5 total messages Started by Frank Eid Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:14

#16810

Author: Frank Eid
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:14

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I've been puzzled for a while with the fact that there is no
'ExtractFileName' - type of function in the VCL that actually returns the
name of a file WITHOUT the extension part.

The solution is:

AnsiString as,fn;

as = "C:\\mydir\\myfile.ext"
fn = ExtractFileName(as);    // Get's "myfile.ext"
fn = ChangeFileExt(fn,"");    // Get's "myfile"

Frank

Re: Filename problem solved!

#16811

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:31

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"Frank Eid" <frank@spi.no> wrote in message
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> I've been puzzled for a while with the fact that there is no
> 'ExtractFileName' - type of function in the VCL that actually
> returns the name of a file WITHOUT the extension part.

Not in the VCL itself, no.  But the C library has fnsplit() which does that.
It doesn't work for UNC paths, though.


Gambit

Re: Filename problem solved!

#16812

Author: Frank Eid
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:44

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> Not in the VCL itself, no.  But the C library has fnsplit() which does
that.
> It doesn't work for UNC paths, though.

Yeah, but it need lot's of defining of char arrays (possible with memory
alloc), it's a lot easier to just use the AnsiString functions...

After the idea of using 'ChangeFileExt()' I've trashed the func i wrote
using the 'fnsplit()'...

Frank

Re: Filename problem solved!

#16813

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:19

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"Frank Eid" <frank@spi.no> wrote in message
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> Yeah, but it need lot's of defining of char arrays
> (possible with memory alloc)

Hardly any, actually.  If all you want is the filename portion only, then
just pass that buffer in only and set everything else to NULL:

    char filename[MAXFILE+1] = {0};
    fnsplit("C:\\mydir\\myfile.ext", NULL, NULL, filename, NULL);


Gambit

Re: Filename problem solved!

#16822

Author: Frank Eid
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:04

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>     char filename[MAXFILE+1] = {0};
>     fnsplit("C:\\mydir\\myfile.ext", NULL, NULL, filename, NULL);

Ok. Smart. (I've never used it that way since i've created my own filename
class in wich all parameters allways was used...)

Frank.

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