Function

GLibpath_get_dirname

Declaration [src]

gchar*
g_path_get_dirname (
  const gchar* file_name
)

Description [src]

Gets the directory components of a file name. For example, the directory component of /usr/bin/test is /usr/bin. The directory component of / is /.

If the file name has no directory components “.” is returned. The returned string should be freed when no longer needed.

Parameters

file_name

Type: const gchar*

The name of the file.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

Return value

Type: gchar*

The directory components of the file.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.