get_basename

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

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 query_info.

This call does no blocking I/O.

Example: Get the base name:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	// Output: ``my-test.txt``
	File file = File.new_for_path ("/foo/bar/baz/my-test.txt");
	print ("%s\n", file.get_basename ());
	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.get_basename.vala

Parameters:

this	input File

Returns:

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