basename

strip directory and suffix from filenames

Calling Sequence

processedfiles = basename(files[,flag [,flagexpand]])

Arguments

:files a string matrix giving a set of file names. : :flag, flagexpand boolean optional parameters. Default value is

%t.

: :processedFiles a string matrix containing the processed filenames. :

Description

basename(files) returns the basename of the file entries given in files.

If flag is true the files are first converted to the target type given by the ``getos`_() == ‘Windows’` variable. Moreover, if flagexpand is true leading strings like SCIHOME, SCI or ~ are expanded using environment variables.

Examples

files=basename('SCI/modules/fileio/macros/poo.sci')
files=basename('SCI/modules\fileio/macros/poo.sci')
files=basename('SCI/modules\fileio/macros/poo.sci.k')

See Also

• listfiles list of files
• pathconvert pathnames convertion between POSIX and windows.
• fileparts returns the path, filename and extension for a file path