al_get_path_basename(3)

💅 al_get_path_basename(3) — Library Functions Manual 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

al_get_path_basename — Allegro 5 API bestie that hands you the basename (the filename with the extension removed) from a path. It’s giving “filename, but make it short” ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

const char *al_get_path_basename(const ALLEGRO_PATH *path)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: you’ve got a path, and this function returns the basename — that’s literally the filename with the extension removed. Slay.

If the filename doesn’t have an extension, then the whole filename is the basename. No extension? No problem, bestie — the whole filename gets the crown 👑.

If there is no filename part, then the empty string is returned. Yep, "". Cute little nothing. 💀

⚠️ Pointer tea: the returned pointer is valid only until the filename part of the path is modified in any way, or until the path is destroyed. So don’t get attached, okay? It’s a temporary vibe. 😭

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_get_path_filename(3)
• al_get_path_extension(3)

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💖 Straight from the Allegro reference manual for the Allegro 5 API — page al_get_path_basename(3) — and the footer didn’t give us a date, so we’re calling it timeless. 🎀