How to get the filename only out of an ALLEGRO_FS

How to get the filename only out of an ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY

Frank Drebin

Member #2,987

December 2002

Hi!

As the title says: Is there a convenient way to obtain the filename only (including file extension) out of an ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY? Let's say I have a file associated with an ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY named 'myfile' then I can use al_get_fs_entry_name(myfile) to obtain the full path+filename+extension. Of course I could iterate through this string backwards until I find a '/' and copy the difference but I am wondering if there is an easier or built-in function for that...

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Edgar Reynaldo

Major Reynaldo

May 2007

You're giving me the lulz man.

std::string GetFileName(std::string path) {
   unsigned int slash = path.find_last_of("\/");
   if (slash == std::string::npos) {return path;}
   return path.substr(slash);
}

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SiegeLord

Member #7,827

October 2006

I think you need to go via ALLEGRO_PATH, which has a al_get_path_filename for this purpose.

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