Name

basename

Synopsis

basename (fullname[, suffixlist])

Returns the first element of the list that would be produced if you called fileparse with the same arguments. Provides compatibility with the Unix basename command. Takes the following arguments:

fullname

Input file specification

suffixlist

Optional list containing patterns to be matched against the end of fullname to find the suffix

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