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1 /* stripslash.c -- remove trailing slashes from a string
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2 Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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7 any later version.
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9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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12 GNU General Public License for more details.
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
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18 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
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19 # include <config.h>
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20 #endif
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22 #if defined(STDC_HEADERS) || defined(HAVE_STRING_H)
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23 # include <string.h>
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24 #else
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25 # include <strings.h>
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26 #endif
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28 /* Remove trailing slashes from PATH.
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29 This is useful when using filename completion from a shell that
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30 adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because
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31 the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error
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32 when given a path that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */
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34 void
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35 strip_trailing_slashes (path)
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36 char *path;
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37 {
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38 int last;
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40 last = strlen (path) - 1;
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41 while (last > 0 && path[last] == '/')
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42 path[last--] = '\0';
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43 }