On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:50:53 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> What would this do with input like "/foo///" ?
>
> Such input probably won't happen in this particular case.
> But I'd rather use an idiomatic API that understands path semantics
> of data contained in the string.

Then you probably want something with basename(3)-like semantics.

 - todd