nf-shlwapi-pathfindfilenamea.md

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NF:shlwapi.PathFindFileNameA	PathFindFileNameA function (shlwapi.h)	Searches a path for a file name. (ANSI)	PathFindFileNameA shlwapi/PathFindFileNameA	shell\PathFindFileName.htm	shell	f3824dee-1169-4f89-9844-35aa8a1830c4	12/05/2018	PathFindFileName, PathFindFileName function [Windows Shell], PathFindFileNameA, PathFindFileNameW, _win32_PathFindFileName, shell.PathFindFileName, shlwapi/PathFindFileName, shlwapi/PathFindFileNameA, shlwapi/PathFindFileNameW	shlwapi.h		Windows	Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP [desktop apps only]	Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]				PathFindFileNameW (Unicode) and PathFindFileNameA (ANSI)						Shlwapi.lib	Shlwapi.dll (version 4.71 or later)		Windows			19H1	PathFindFileNameA shlwapi/PathFindFileNameA	c++	APIRef kbSyntax	DllExport	Shlwapi.dll API-MS-Win-Core-shlwapi-legacy-l1-1-0.dll KernelBase.dll API-MS-Win-DownLevel-shlwapi-l1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-DownLevel-shlwapi-l1-1-1.dll	PathFindFileName PathFindFileNameA PathFindFileNameW

PathFindFileNameA function

-description

Searches a path for a file name.

-parameters

-param pszPath [in]

Type: PTSTR

A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the path to search.

-returns

Type: PTSTR

Returns a pointer to the address of the string if successful, or a pointer to the beginning of the path otherwise.

-remarks

Note

The shlwapi.h header defines PathFindFileName as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.