note 73563 deleted from function.realpath by danbrown

From: Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:02:04 +0000
Subject: note 73563 deleted from function.realpath by danbrown
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Note Submitter: ---- Tyron Madlener said "I just wonder why all the other solutions are so complex and that mine so simple". Funny. I wonder why yours is so complex (26 lines, 2 functions) when it can be done in half that (13 lines, 1 function): function rp($p) { $p=explode('/', $p); $o=array(); for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($p); $i++) { if (''==$p[$i] || '.'==$p[$i]) continue; if ('..'==$p[$i] && $i>0 && '..'!=$o[sizeof($o)-1]) { array_pop($o); continue; } array_push($o, $p[$i]); } return implode('/', $o); } With that, this: print rp("../../xyz.txt")."\n"; print rp("a/b/c/d/../../xyz.txt")."\n"; print rp("a/b/c/d/../..//xyz.txt")."\n"; Prints: ../../xyz.txt a/b/xyz.txt a/b/xyz.txt As expected.

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