path.Base.md (712B)
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2 title: path.Base
3 description: Base returns the last element of a path.
4 date: 2018-11-28
5 publishdate: 2018-11-28
6 lastmod: 2018-11-28
7 categories: [functions]
8 menu:
9 docs:
10 parent: "functions"
11 keywords: [path, base]
12 signature: ["path.Base PATH"]
13 workson: []
14 hugoversion: "0.40"
15 relatedfuncs: [path.BaseName, path.Clean, path.Dir, path.Ext, path.Join, path.Split]
16 deprecated: false
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18
19 `path.Base` returns the last element of `PATH`.
20
21 If `PATH` is empty, `.` is returned.
22
23 **Note:** On Windows, `PATH` is converted to slash (`/`) separators.
24
25 ```
26 {{ path.Base "a/news.html" }} → "news.html"
27 {{ path.Base "news.html" }} → "news.html"
28 {{ path.Base "a/b/c" }} → "c"
29 {{ path.Base "/x/y/z/" }} → "z"
30 ```