Pastable version of Extracting directory, filename and extension from a path

<pre class='prettyprint' language='C'>void splitpath(const char *path, char *directory, char *filename, char *extension)
{
    memset(directory, 0, strlen(directory));
    memset(filename, 0, strlen(filename));
    memset(extension, 0, strlen(extension));

int filename_start_index = 0;
    int extension_found = 0;
    const char *last_directory_separator = strrchr(path, '/');
    if(last_directory_separator != NULL) {
        filename_start_index = last_directory_separator - path + 1;
    }
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i &lt; strlen(path); i++){
        char temp[] = { path[i], '\0' };
        if(i &gt;= filename_start_index) {
            if(extension_found || path[i] == '.') {
                extension_found = 1;
                strcat(extension, temp);
            }
            else
                strcat(filename, temp);
        }
        else {
            strcat(directory, temp);
        }
    }

}</pre>
<pre class='prettyprint' language='C'>int main()
{
    char directory[200], filename[200], extension[200];  /* I am aware about buffer overflow. This is just for testing */
    splitpath(&quot;/usr/bin/some.txt&quot;, directory, filename, extension);

printf(&quot;Directory = %s\n&quot;, directory);
    printf(&quot;FileName = %s\n&quot;, filename);
    printf(&quot;Extension = %s\n&quot;, extension);

splitpath(&quot;some.txt&quot;, directory, filename, extension);
    printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
    printf(&quot;Directory = %s\n&quot;, directory);
    printf(&quot;FileName = %s\n&quot;, filename);
    printf(&quot;Extension = %s\n&quot;, extension);

splitpath(&quot;src/some.tar.gz&quot;, directory, filename, extension);
    printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
    printf(&quot;Directory = %s\n&quot;, directory);
    printf(&quot;FileName = %s\n&quot;, filename);
    printf(&quot;Extension = %s\n&quot;, extension);
    return 0;
}</pre>
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