You could also use basename(3) instead of Cocoa/CF calls. Since it could modify the passed-in string, you'll need to either use -[NSString getFileSystemRepresentation:maxLength:] or copy the string returned by -[NSString fileSystemRepresentation]. Of course, if you're worried about the path separator being something other than /, you probably aren't going to be able to use something line basename(3).
You could retrieve the path in POSIX format using CFURLCopyFileSystemPath (CFURL is toll-free bridged with NSURL, as is CFString with NSString) and passing in kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle. A briefer way to write [array objectAtIndex:([array count] - 1)] is [array lastObject]. -addObject:/-lastObject together make it really easy to treat an NSMutableArray as a stack. —Jeremy On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Steve Christensen <puns...@mac.com> wrote: > On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: > >> Le 15 avr. 09 à 01:57, Dragan Milić a écrit : >> >>> Hell all, >>> >>> Let's suppose I've got NSString @"C:omponent" , which represents the name >>> of a file. Is there a way to instruct NSString class not to treat a leading >>> single letter followed by a column as a path separator? Namely, I need this >>> one treated as only one path component @"C:omponent", but NSString sees two, >>> @"C:" and "omponent". So, if I ask for the last path component, I get >>> @"omponent" instead of the whole string @"C:omponent". >>> >>> I've searched documentation, took a look into NSPathUtilities.h, but no >>> help. >> >> >> You can use the CFURL API which provide a set of function to manipulate >> path, but due to memory management, it's not as clean than the Cocoa string >> API (objects are not autoreleased). >> >> • CFURLCreateCopyAppendingPathComponent >> • CFURLCreateCopyAppendingPathExtension >> • CFURLCreateCopyDeletingLastPathComponent >> • CFURLCreateCopyDeletingPathExtension >> >> CFURLCopyPathExtension >> CFURLCopyLastPathComponent >> >> etc… > > Or to stay entirely in Cocoa-land, you could always use > > NSArray* components = [filePath componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"]; > NSString* lastPathComponent = [components objectAtIndex:([components count] > - 1)]; > > Not quite as straightforward as the methods in NSPathUtilities but it would > certainly work around the colon issue... > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jeremyw.sherman%40gmail.com > > This email sent to jeremyw.sher...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
