Re: dealing with utf8 filenames

["Alan M. Evans" <ame1 extratech com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:47, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > For the sake of readability, I'd rather use the following code:
> > >
> > > char **str;
> > >
> > > /* str[0]: basename
> > >    str[1]: extension */
> > > str = g_strsplit (filename, ".", 2);
> > >
> > > g_strfreev(str)
> >
> > Surely that won't work if there is more than one dot in the name!
>
> Why? :)

Because the file "myprog-1.2.3.tar.gz" will be split into:
basename="myprog-1" and extension="2.3.tar.gz", which is incorrect for a
file name and incorrect for an extension.