LRN: add function GNUNET_STRINGS_get_short_name to get basename

[oweals/gnunet.git] / src / include / gnunet_strings_lib.h

diff --git a/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h b/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
index edeccaf3b3826072ebbac472752824e4ca80adc2..8101a8113d262e1b4a88366ea7d737ca78877c63 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
+++ b/src/include/gnunet_strings_lib.h
@@ -199,6 +199,20 @@ GNUNET_STRINGS_absolute_time_to_string (struct GNUNET_TIME_Absolute t);
 char *
 GNUNET_STRINGS_relative_time_to_string (struct GNUNET_TIME_Relative delta);
 
+/**
+ * "man basename"
+ * Returns a pointer to a part of filename (allocates nothing)!
+ *
+ * @param filename filename to extract basename from
+ * @return short (base) name of the file (that is, everything following the
+ *         last directory separator in filename. If filename ends with a
+ *         directory separator, the result will be a zero-length string.
+ *         If filename has no directory separators, the result is filename
+ *         itself.
+ */
+const char *
+GNUNET_STRINGS_get_short_name (const char *filename);
+
 #if 0                           /* keep Emacsens' auto-indent happy */
 {
 #endif