OpenEuphoria

pathinfo

include filesys.e 
namespace filesys 
public function pathinfo(sequence path, integer std_slash = 0) 

parses a fully qualified pathname.

Parameters:

1. path : a sequence, the path to parse

Returns:

A sequence, of length five. Each of these elements is a string:

• The path name. For Windows this excludes the drive id.
• The full unqualified file name
• the file name, without extension
• the file extension
• the drive id

Comments:

The host operating system path separator is used in the parsing.

Example 1:

-- WINDOWS 
info = pathinfo("C:\\euphoria\\docs\\readme.txt") 
-- info is {"C:\\euphoria\\docs", "readme.txt", "readme", "txt", "C"} 

Example 2:

-- Unix variants 
info = pathinfo("/opt/euphoria/docs/readme.txt") 
-- info is {"/opt/euphoria/docs", "readme.txt", "readme", "txt", ""} 

Example 3:

-- no extension 
info = pathinfo("/opt/euphoria/docs/readme") 
-- info is {"/opt/euphoria/docs", "readme", "readme", "", ""} 

See Also:

driveid, dirname, filename, fileext, PATH_BASENAME, PATH_DIR, PATH_DRIVEID, PATH_FILEEXT, PATH_FILENAME