Remove the extension of a file passed as a parameter (argv[1])

[Dante404]

I'm implementing a program that needs to use a function from another module that has 3 parameters:

Header from the function I need to use:

int create_torrent_from_metainfo_file (char const * const metainfo_file_name, struct torrent_t * const torrent,
        char const * const downloaded_file_name);

Main:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
struct torrent_t torrent;
    if(argc == 2) {
        if(create_torrent_from_metainfo_file(argv[1], &torrent, downloaded_file_name) {
....
        }
}

Given that when I'll run the program I'll pass as an argument a metainfo file (which is a .ttorrent file), I need the 3rd parameter in the function to be the name of this metainfo file without the .ttorrent extension (the name of argv[1] without the extension), but I'm very lost and I don't know how to do it.

Any idea?

Thank you in advance.

[Salem]

You can use strrchr to find the last '.' in a string.

[Malcolm McLean]

I'm implementing a program that needs to use a function from another module that has 3 parameters:

Header from the function I need to use:

int create_torrent_from_metainfo_file (char const * const metainfo_file_name, struct torrent_t * const torrent,
        char const * const downloaded_file_name);

Main:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
struct torrent_t torrent;
    if(argc == 2) {
        if(create_torrent_from_metainfo_file(argv[1], &torrent, downloaded_file_name) {
....
        }
}

Given that when I'll run the program I'll pass as an argument a metainfo file (which is a .ttorrent file), I need the 3rd parameter in the function to be the name of this metainfo file without the .ttorrent extension (the name of argv[1] without the extension), but I'm very lost and I don't know how to do it.

Any idea?

Thank you in advance.

You want to work with a copy of the command line argument. It's
not a good idea to modify the argv[] strings in place.

So call malloc() with strlen(argv[1]) + 1 (for the nul), then strcpy.
That gives you a copy of the string.

Now work backwards and overwrite the work string with nuls,
until you come to a dot character. Be sure to also test for string
start so you don't crash the program if passed an argument without
an extension.

You might need to be slightly more complicated, for example
an extension can usually occur only in the last portion of the file
path, as delimited by slash characters.

Once you've got the modified path, pass it as usual to the torrent
function.