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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