Normalize path

Normalizes the slashes in an path

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
03/28/2006

Updated:
03/28/2006

Tags:
directory functions, folder, files

// todo: file support, maybe add dirname()
 
function normalize_path($path){
 
    // DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is a system variable
    // which contains the right slash for the current 
    // system (windows = \ or linux = /)
 
    $s = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    $path = preg_replace('/[\/\\\]/', $s, $path);
    $path = preg_replace('/'.$s.'$/', '', $path) . $s;
 
    return $path;
}

Show example

on windows:<br/>normalize_path('/go/foo/bar'); --> returns \go\foo\bar\

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