stupid C question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Try 'man basename', or:


char offset_filename[MAX]:
strcat(offset_filename, basename(argv[1]));
strcat(offset_filename,".offset");

On Wed, 14 May 2003 14:33:12 -0400
Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:

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> $DEITY it's been forever since I mucked with C...
> 
> if I have:
> char offset_filename[MAX};
> <blah>
> strcat(offset_filename,argv[1]);
> strcat(offset_filename,".offset");
> 
> and I call the program like:
> a /some/path/to/file
> 
> then offset_filename becomes /some/path/to/file.offset
> 
> how in the $PURGATORY do I modify that code to replace /some/path/to
> with /my/hardcoded/path/to so that calling the program like:
> a /some/path/to/file
> 
> ends up with offset_filename being:
> /my/hardcoded/path/to/file.offset
> 
> (note that 'file' is still pulled from the argv[1])


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Roger Oberholtzer
Sunny Stockholm