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Top Forums Programming C programming + problem with char arrays Post 302209431 by JamesGoh on Friday 27th of June 2008 12:31:49 AM
Old 06-27-2008
C programming + problem with char arrays
Im trying to write some code atm which gets the complete pathname of a folder and strips off references to the parent folders. The end result should be just the name of the folder.

Currently Im able to extract the folder name, however Im getting junk added onto the name as well which is making further processing more difficult.

This is how Im doing it

Code:
/*Count number of parent folders*/

for(i=0;str[i];i++)
{
      if((int)str[i] == (int) '/')
                slash_cnt++;
}

/*Extract name of folder*/

for(i=0;str[i];i++)
{
	if((int)str[i] == (int) '/')
	{
                 cnt++;
	    if(cnt == slash_cnt)
	    {
		flag=1;
 		pos = i;
	    }
	}

	if( (flag==1) && (i>pos) && (i<strlen(str)) )
		folder[i-pos-1] = str[i]
}

For folder[] (which is the folder whose name I want) I will get something like "myfolder\023\04" when I just want "myfolder".

Im not sure what I could be doing wrong, so help would be appreciated

cheers
Last edited by JamesGoh; 06-27-2008 at 01:40 AM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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OPTIONS

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