[Rd] basename returns "." not in filename (PR#13958)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:11 , Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> joehl at web.de wrote:
>> Full_Name: Jens Oehlschlägel
>> Version: 2.9.2
>> OS: Win32
>> Submission from: (NULL) (85.181.152.156)
>>
>>
>> # Obviously an empty basename is allowed (if the filepath is a pure  
>> path)
>>> basename("/")
>> [1] ""
>>
>> # but here we get the dot from the path
>>> basename("./")
>> [1] "."
>
> Command line utility does likewise:
>
> viggo:~/>basename ./
> .
>
> Point is, I gather, that trailing slashes are removed, e.g.,
>
> viggo:~/>basename foo/
> foo
>
> So, not a bug.
>

Indeed. The rationale is that foo/bar/ specifies a directory "bar" at  
the path "/foo", hence the name is "bar" ("" would make no sense of  
course).

Cheers,
Simon