<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>baseFilename -- the base part of a filename or path</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_base__Name.html">next</a> | <a href="___Bareiss.html">previous</a> | <a href="_base__Name.html">forward</a> | <a href="___Bareiss.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>baseFilename -- the base part of a filename or path</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>baseFilename fn</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>fn</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, a filename or path</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span>the last component of the path</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : baseFilename "/a/b/dir/" o1 = dir</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : baseFilename "/a/b/file" o2 = file</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="___File.html" title="the class of all files">File</a> -- the class of all files</span></li> <li><span><a href="_minimize__Filename.html" title="minimize a file name">minimizeFilename</a> -- minimize a file name</span></li> <li><span><a href="_relativize__Filename.html" title="relativize a file name">relativizeFilename</a> -- relativize a file name</span></li> <li><span><a href="_to__Absolute__Path.html" title="the absolute path version of a file name">toAbsolutePath</a> -- the absolute path version of a file name</span></li> <li><span><a href="_search__Path_lp__List_cm__String_rp.html" title="search a path for a file">searchPath</a> -- search a path for a file</span></li> <li><span><a href="_path.html" title="list of directories to look in">path</a> -- list of directories to look in</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>