* file.c: [DOC] Add more documentation for File.basename by @avdi [fix GH-550][ci skip]

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@45200 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 602a8e527d..89e1694d56 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -3832,10 +3832,12 @@ ruby_enc_find_basename(const char *name, long *baselen, long *alllen, rb_encodin
  *  <code>File::ALT_SEPARATOR</code> as the separator when
  *  <code>File::ALT_SEPARATOR</code> is not <code>nil</code>. If
  *  <i>suffix</i> is given and present at the end of <i>file_name</i>,
- *  it is removed.
+ *  it is removed. If <i>suffix</i> is ".*", any extension will be
+ *  removed.
  *
  *     File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb")          #=> "ruby.rb"
  *     File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb", ".rb")   #=> "ruby"
+ *     File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb", ".*")    #=> "ruby"
  */
 
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