Re: [Dev-C++] ANSI C: How to split path and filename

What you can do is a loop, where the condition is " do I find another \ " ?
And you could do like this.
You find the first "\"
copy "c:\" in a string.
Look for another "\"
paste the sequel to the first string
I mean : "things\" to " c:\"
and you get a string with : "c:\things\"
then you look for another "\"
And you have : "alfa\" paste it to your string, and you get
"c:\things\alfa\"
Since you don't have anymore "\" the rest of the string will be a filename.
Use the strstr() function
strcp() ( if I remember the name ).
They are all in the string.h
Hope it helps.

Fabien.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Vilella Bertran" <vil...@ya...>
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: [Dev-C++] ANSI C: How to split path and filename


> Hello,
> how do I split my path and my filename?
> Example:
>
> c:\things\alfa\myfile.txt
>
> like:   char *thepath ----> c:\things\alfa
>         char *thefile ----> myfile.txt
>
> in ANSI C (or C), meaning the same way with DOS or UNIX
>
> There is anywhere to find this kind of things? (I couldn't find in the
help
> neither in Bob Stout's snippets)
>
> Thanks.
>
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