NAME

get_base_path - Strips suffix from file path

SYNOPSIS

#include "l/l_parse.h"

Example compile flags (system dependent):
  -DLINUX_X86_64 -DLINUX_X86_64_OPTERON  -DGNU_COMPILER 
   -I/home/kobus/include
   -L/home/kobus/misc/load/linux_x86_64_opteron -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
  -lKJB                               -lfftw3  -lgsl -lgslcblas -ljpeg  -lSVM -lstdc++                    -lpthread -lSLATEC -lg2c    -lacml -lacml_mv -lblas -lg2c      -lncursesw 


int get_base_path
(
	const char *path,
	char *base_path,
	size_t base_path_size,
	char *suffix,
	size_t suffix_size,
	const char **suffixes
);

DESCRIPTION

This routine strips the suffix from a file path, where suffix is defined as a period followed by one of the strings in the NULL terminated array of strings in the argument "suffixes". This is useful if you want to strip an image file suffix like ".tiff" from a file name, but you don't want to strip a non image file suffix ending like ".backup". An example of how to set up suffixes is as follows:

     static const char* suffixes[ ] =
     {
         "kiff", "kif", "mid", "miff", "tiff", "tif", "viff", "gif",
          NULL
     };

RETURNS NO_ERROR on success, ERROR on failure.

get_base_name

DISCLAIMER

This software is not adequatedly tested. It is recomended that results are checked independantly where appropriate.

AUTHOR

Kobus Barnard

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