Re: Reimplementing AS_BASENAME

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:10:53PM CEST:
> 
> as_func_basename ()
> {
>   test "x$1" = "x--" && shift
>   case $1 in
>     / | // ) result=$1 ;;       # root dir corner cases
>     *[!/]*/ )                   # trailing slash, but not root
>       result=${1##*[!/]}        # compute the suffix of slashes
>       result=${1%"$result"}     # strip the trailing slashes
>       result=${result##*/} ;;   # compute the basename
>     */ ) result=/ ;;            # collapse alternate spelling of root
>     * ) result=${result##*/} ;; # no trailing slash
>   esac
>   # add code here for stripping $2, if wanted
> }

What if \ also serves as directory separator?  Are you going to rule
that out for the new AS_BASENAME?

Cheers,
Ralf