FileIF.getBasename

Gets the base name (the last component of the path) for a given GFile

If called for the top level of a system (such as the filesystem root or a uri like sftp://host/) it will return a single directory separator (and on Windows, possibly a drive letter).

The base name is a byte string (not UTF-8). It has no defined encoding or rules other than it may not contain zero bytes. If you want to use filenames in a user interface you should use the display name that you can get by requesting the G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DISPLAY_NAME attribute with g_file_query_info().

This call does no blocking I/O.

interface FileIF
string
getBasename
()

Return Value

Type: string

string containing the GFile's base name, or NULL if given GFile is invalid. The returned string should be freed with g_free() when no longer needed.