simplify weird path name
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if i have a valid pathname like this:
C:\folder\\\\subfolder\.\.\..\..\documents\map\dir\\\..\location\
how can i change that to its simplest form in a simple way?
one way i came up with is
stupidpath='C:\folder\\\\subfolder\.\.\..\..\documents\map\dir\\\..\location\'
currentpath=cd
cd stupidpath
cleverpath = cd
cd currentpath
and another way would be with strrep, strfind, etc. but that is both quite cumbersome. is there another, easy way?
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Wesley Ooms
on 7 May 2014
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Slim
on 31 Aug 2015
This solution yields 'C:\folder\subfolder\documents\map\dir\location', so it doesn't take into account the relative paths.
I would have expect a result more like 'C:\documents\map\location'
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