Class PathStrings

Helper methods to manipulate paths as strings.

public static class PathStrings

Inherited Members: object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Methods

Will convert a path string to a normalized path, using path separator specific for the current system.

The normalization includes:

converting all the AltDirectorySeparatorChar to DirectorySeparatorChar (e.g. / to \ on Windows),
collapsing any repeated separators in the input to only one separator (e.g. // to just / on Unix),
resolving any sequence of current and parent directory marks (subsequently, . and ..) if possible (meaning they will not be replaced if they are in the root position: paths such as . or ../.. will not be affected by the normalization, while e.g. foo/../. will be resolved to just foo).

Note that this operation will never perform any file IO, and is purely string manipulation.

public static string Normalize(string path)