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Remove from the specified `path` the rightmost filename following the root; that is, remove the leaf element. If the optionally specified `rootEnd` offset is non‐negative, it is taken as the position in `path` of the character following the root. Return 0 on success, and a nonzero value otherwise; in particular, return a nonzero value if `path` does not have a leaf. See []and Performance). See also  for the definition of leaf and root.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_pathutil.h>`

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static
int
popLeaf(
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* path,
    int rootEnd = ‐1);
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