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+## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+## General Public License for more details.
+##
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{dir}, @var{name}, @var{ext}, @var{ver}] =} fileparts (@var{filename})
+## Return the directory, name, extension, and version components of
+## @var{filename}.
+## @seealso{fullfile}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function [directory, name, extension, version] = fileparts (filename)
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ if (ischar (filename))
+ ds = strchr (filename, filesep ("all"), 1, "last");
+ if (isempty (ds))
+ ds = 0;
+ endif
+ es = rindex (filename, ".");
+ ## These can be the same if they are both 0 (no dir or ext).
+ if (es <= ds)
+ es = length(filename)+1;
+ endif
+ if (ds == 0)
+ directory = "";
+ elseif (ds == 1)
+ directory = filename(1);
+ else
+ directory = filename(1:ds-1);
+ endif
+ name = filename(ds+1:es-1);
+ if (es > 0 && es <= length (filename))
+ extension = filename(es:end);
+ else
+ extension = "";
+ endif
+ version = "";
+ else
+ error ("fileparts: expecting FILENAME argument to be a string");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("file");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ""));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("/file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "/") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("dir/file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "dir") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("./file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, ".") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("d1/d2/file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "d1/d2") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("/d1/d2/file.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "/d1/d2") && strcmp (n, "file") && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts ("/.ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "/") && strcmp (n, char (zeros (1, 0))) && strcmp (e, ".ext"));
+
+%!test
+%! [d, n, e] = fileparts (".ext");
+%! assert (strcmp (d, "") && strcmp (n, char (zeros (1, 0))) && strcmp (e, ".ext"));