what 's wrong with this code?

The following code
=================================
$ cat
string.c
#include <string.h>

char *
Basename(char *pathname) {
char *cp;
if ( (cp = strrchr(pathname,'/') )
return cp+1;
return pathname;
}
$
=================================

gives the following error.

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$ cc string.c -o
string
string.c: In function `Basename':
string.c:7: error: syntax error before "return"
================================

Could some one help me find the error?
I am new to C lang

Thanks

--Siju



gives

Siju wrote:You missed a right paren. Should be..
if ( (cp = strrchr(pathname,'/')) )
^-here
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On 2008-08-31, Siju <sgeorge.ml@gmail.comwrote:You are missing a right parentheses and the entire main()
function. Both are required for the program to compile.
Surely you could figure that one out without resorting to
asking on a newsgroup?

I have snipped the code.

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:28:49 GMT, Andrew Poelstra
<apoelstra@supernova.homewrote:
There is no need for main to be present in this source file. It is
obviously needed to execute (on a hosted system) but not needed to
compile.
Not since there is no such requirement and even if there were it is
completely unrelated to the question at hand.

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:15:25 -0700 (PDT), Siju <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>
wrote:
Indenting the range of if (as well as for, while, and do-while) will
make your code a lot easier to read and save you a lot of time if you
have to come back to it months later.
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Siju wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
unbalanced parentheses

On Sep 1, 4:52*am, Barry Schwarz <schwa...@dqel.comwrote:The compilation command given by the OP requests
the generation of an executable from the single
source file, string.c . So main() is needed for
compilation to succeed.

On Sep 1, 3:35 am, Old Wolf <oldw...@inspire.net.nzwrote:
How do you know? cc string.c -o string could mean anything.

Old Wolf <oldwolf@inspire.net.nzwrites:No, it's needed for *linking* to succeed. The command, assuming "cc"
works the way it does on most Unix-like systems, specifies both
compilation and linking.

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On Aug 31, 9:52 pm, Barry Schwarz <schwa...@dqel.comwrote:Thank you so much for the responses.

But when I added the parentheses

================================================== ======
$ cat string.c
#include <string.h>

char *
Basename(char *pathname) {
char *cp;
if ( (cp = strrchr(pathname,'/') ) )
return cp+1;
return pathname;
}
$
================================================== ======

I get this error

================================================== ======
$ cc string.c -o
string
/usr/lib/crt0.o(.text+0xa4): In function `___start':
: undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
================================================== =======

thanks

--Siju

Hi

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:15:25 -0700, Siju wrote:apart from the missing paren, your function mis-handles handle the
following values of pathname:

NULL should return "." your version probably crashes
"" should return "." your version returns ""
"foo/" should return "foo" your version returns ""
"/" should return "/" your version returns ""

The last two are very big bugs indeed!

There is an efficient public domain C implementation of this function and
several related ones at:

http://www.purposeful.co.uk/software...e/basename_r.h
http://www.purposeful.co.uk/software...e/basename_r.c

NB: these versions return (char*) cast to (const char*), to give you the
hint that it isn't always ok to write to the returned string. This is
the case with the standard basename(1) too, but the type doesn't indicate
it.

HTH
viza

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:25:59 +0000, viza wrote:
basename(3)

On Sep 1, 3:00*pm, Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.orgwrote:I was using 'compile' in the very common usage
of 'generate an executable'.

"Siju" <sgeorge.ml@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
news:7f7516d4-c184-49c6-ac98-a875e9ed80e4@s1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...char* Basename(char *pathname) {
char *cp;
if(pathname)
if ( (cp=strrchr(pathname,'/'))
|| (cp=strrchr(pathname,'\\'))
) return cp+1;
return pathname;}