Recent changes to striptrailingext

striptrailingext modified by Mark Hobley

Mark Hobley — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:31:30 -0000

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Synopsis

-char * striptrailingext(char *);
+char * striptrailingext(char *pathname);

 Strips trailing filename extension leaving:

@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@

 Return values

-Returns address of base filename (or NULL on error).
+Returns address of base filename (or NULL if no file extension was provided or an error occurs).

 Memory allocation

 This function allocates memory (at the returned address) to hold the revised filename. This will need be deallocated by the calling function after use.
+
+Note that if the provided pathname does not contain a file extension, then no memory is allocated and a NULL pointer is returned.

striptrailingext modified by Mark Hobley

Mark Hobley — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:23:33 -0000

Synopsis

char * striptrailingext(char *);

Strips trailing filename extension leaving:

./a.out becomes: ./a

Return values

Returns address of base filename (or NULL on error).

Memory allocation

This function allocates memory (at the returned address) to hold the revised filename. This will need be deallocated by the calling function after use.