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Saurabh Parkhi commented on IO-890:
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Thanks [~ggregory]
My concern is, the method is not returning the filename. You are right about
the Javadoc where the details of the behaviour are mentioned, however, if you
read the `return` statement in the javadoc, the method does not return filename
in this particular case. As I mentioned before, since the file is operating on
`String` instead of `Path` it's behaving this way.
You are absolutely right that, it is rare. When I wrote the test, I used the
`File` object from Java to get the expected filename. I also tried making the
same change in the implementation, however, I found that it interfered with
other expectations of getName and getBaseName hence I've not proposed
implementation changes. This sits in-line with your concern about it
potentially breaking other applications.
I'll be able to workaround this in my application, so I leave it to you to
decide whether to keep this bug open or close it.
Many thanks,
> FilenameUtils.getName(String) doesn't return full name if the filename
> contains a separator character
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> Key: IO-890
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-890
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Saurabh Parkhi
> Priority: Minor
>
> Tried and Replicated on Linux
> * Create a file with backslash in the name e.g. `touch
> file'\'withbackslash.txt`
> * try to get the filename from the full path, it splits on the last
> separator returning only part of the file name
>
> As the method operates only on String, it fails, if it generates a File or
> Path object and get the filename, it will work
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