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realpath

07 Oct 2005 (Updated 10 Oct 2005)

Absolute pathname.

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Description

Resolves relative paths and extra filesep characters in the input.

Syntax:
OUTPUT = REALPATH(THEPATH)

where THEPATH is the path to a file or folder, which should exist.

Example:
realpath('../myfile.txt');
% returns /home/user/whatever/myfile.txt

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MATLAB release

MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

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Comments and Ratings (3)
30 Mar 2006	I Stoddard	Fixed a 6.5/7.1 compatibility hassle for me....
04 Jan 2008	Jason X.	Very helpful. I propose a revision: if exist(thePath,'dir') == 7 && ~isempty(dir(thePath)) ... ==> isd = fileattrib(thePath); if isdir(thePath) && isd ... because 'dir' might be very slow, e.g. when there are lots of files in directory 'thePath'.
12 Jan 2010	Anthony Corr

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