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class method
File.basename
File.basename(file_name [, suffix] ) → base_name
file.c
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static VALUE
rb_file_s_basename(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE _)
{
VALUE fname, fext, basename;
const char *name, *p;
long f, n;
rb_encoding *enc;
fext = Qnil;
if (rb_check_arity(argc, 1, 2) == 2) {
fext = argv[1];
StringValue(fext);
enc = check_path_encoding(fext);
}
fname = argv[0];
FilePathStringValue(fname);
if (NIL_P(fext) || !(enc = rb_enc_compatible(fname, fext))) {
enc = rb_enc_get(fname);
fext = Qnil;
}
if ((n = RSTRING_LEN(fname)) == 0 || !*(name = RSTRING_PTR(fname)))
return rb_str_new_shared(fname);
p = ruby_enc_find_basename(name, &f, &n, enc);
if (n >= 0) {
if (NIL_P(fext)) {
f = n;
}
else {
const char *fp;
fp = StringValueCStr(fext);
if (!(f = rmext(p, f, n, fp, RSTRING_LEN(fext), enc))) {
f = n;
}
RB_GC_GUARD(fext);
}
if (f == RSTRING_LEN(fname)) return rb_str_new_shared(fname);
}
basename = rb_str_new(p, f);
rb_enc_copy(basename, fname);
return basename;
}
Returns the last component of the filename given in file_name (after first stripping trailing separators), which can be formed using both File::SEPARATOR and File::ALT_SEPARATOR as the separator when File::ALT_SEPARATOR is not nil. If suffix is given and present at the end of file_name, it is removed. If suffix is “.*”, any extension will be removed.
Example
File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb") #=> "ruby.rb" File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb", ".rb") #=> "ruby" File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb", ".*") #=> "ruby"