clean_filename.c File Reference

Detailed Description

Utility for stripping path and version information from filenames.

The file implements the clean_filename function, which removes any path components enclosed in square brackets and truncates the string at the first semicolon. The result is a plain filename without VMS style path or version suffixes.

Copyright

• (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
• (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

License

This file is distributed under the terms of the Software License Agreement found in the file LICENSE included with this distribution.

Author

M. Borland, C. Saunders, R. Soliday

Definition in file clean_filename.c.

#include "mdb.h"
#include <ctype.h>

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Functions
char *	clean_filename (char *filename)
	Removes path and version specifications from a filename string.

Function Documentation

clean_filename()

char * clean_filename

(

char *

filename

)

Removes path and version specifications from a filename string.

This function eliminates any path components enclosed in ']' and truncates the filename at the first occurrence of ';' to remove version information.

Parameters

filename

The filename string to be cleaned.

Returns

A pointer to the cleaned filename.

Definition at line 34 of file clean_filename.c.

                                     {
  register char *ptr;
 
  if ((ptr = strchr(filename, ']')))
    strcpy_ss(filename, ptr + 1);
  if ((ptr = strchr(filename, ';')))
    *ptr = 0;
  return (filename);
}