path.BaseName.md (652B)
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2 title: path.BaseName
3 description: BaseName returns the last element of a path, removing the extension if present.
4 date: 2022-06-04
5 categories: [functions]
6 menu:
7 docs:
8 parent: "functions"
9 keywords: [path, base]
10 signature: ["path.BaseName PATH"]
11 relatedfuncs: [path.Base, path.Clean, path.Dir, path.Ext, path.Join, path.Split]
12 deprecated: false
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14
15 If `PATH` is empty, `.` is returned.
16
17 **Note:** On Windows, `PATH` is converted to slash (`/`) separators.
18
19 ```go-html-template
20 {{ path.BaseName "a/news.html" }} → "news"
21 {{ path.BaseName "news.html" }} → "news"
22 {{ path.BaseName "a/b/c" }} → "c"
23 {{ path.BaseName "/x/y/z/" }} → "z"
24 ```