Module Filename: operations on file names
val current_dir_name : string
-
The conventional name for the current directory
(e.g. . in Unix).
val concat : string -> string -> string
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concat dir file returns a file name that designates file
file in directory dir.
val is_relative : string -> bool
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Return true if the file name is relative to the current
directory, false if it is absolute (i.e. in Unix, starts
with /.
val is_implicit : string -> bool
-
Return true if the file name is relative and does not start
with an explicit reference to the current directory (./ or
../ in Unix), false if it starts with an explicit reference
to the root directory or the current directory.
val check_suffix : string -> string -> bool
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check_suffix name suff returns true if the filename name
ends with the suffix suff.
val chop_suffix : string -> string -> string
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chop_suffix name suff removes the suffix suff from
the filename name. The behavior is undefined if name does not
end with the suffix suff.
val chop_extension : string -> string
-
Return the given file name without its extension. The extension
is the shortest suffix starting with a period, .xyz for instance.
Raise Invalid_argument if the given name does not contain
a period.
val basename : string -> string
val dirname : string -> string
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Split a file name into directory name / base file name.
concat (dirname name) (basename name) returns a file name
which is equivalent to name. Moreover, after setting the
current directory to dirname name (with Sys.chdir),
references to basename name (which is a relative file name)
designate the same file as name before the call to chdir.
val temp_file: string -> string -> string
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temp_file prefix suffix returns the name of a
non-existent temporary file in the temporary directory.
The base name of the temporary file is formed by concatenating
prefix, then a suitably chosen integer number, then suffix.
Under Unix, the temporary directory is /tmp by default; if set,
the value of the environment variable TMPDIR is used instead.
Under Windows, the name of the temporary directory is the
value of the environment variable TEMP,
or C:\temp by default.