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Re: Get directory name?
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
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Re: Get directory name? |
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Date: |
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:44:28 +0200 |
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> I can't find a good way to get the last directory name from a directory
> path using the current functions for file name handling. There must be
> some way ...?
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> file-name-nondirectory does not work for a directory path (or, rather it
> returns "" which is not what I want). Maybe there should be a
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> (defun directory-last-name (directory)
> "Returns the last name in a directory path.
> ..."
Some more thoughts: Actually it can be implemented like this
(defun directory-last-name (directory)
"Returns the last name in a directory path."
(file-name-nondirectory
(expand-file-name "."
(file-name-as-directory directory))))
At least that works on w32. Any thoughts on adding this?