Re: How can I tell if a path is absolute?
| From: | Trejkaz Xaoza | Date: | Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:15:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How can I tell if a path is absolute? | ||
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Michael Ochs wrote:
> Hi,
> maybe you could try it with regular expressions! "[A-Z]:\\" or better
> "[C-Z]:\\" because A and B is used just for floppy drives...
> Take a look at www.php.net/preg_match/
I'm not sure if you noticed, but I said I wanted it to be portable.
Sure, "([A-Za-z]:)?[/\\]" would work to some extent, but would it work
perfectly? As far as I can tell, the path "C:/" is _relative_ on Linux and
BSD. Am I wrong?
TX
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