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filepath
Description
The filepath library contains procedures for cross-platform parsing and manipulation of file paths. It supports both Windows and POSIX paths, including Windows share paths.
Library Procedures
Platform Flags
- (filepath:posix [BOOL]) => BOOL procedure
If invoked without arguments, this procedure returns whether the library procedures assume POSIX-style paths or not. Invoking the procedure with a boolean argument disables or enables POSIX-style paths. If set to false, the library procedures assume Windows-style paths.
- (filepath:is-windows?) => BOOL procedure
Convenience function that returns the inverse of (filepath:posix).
- (filepath:is-posix?) => BOOL procedure
Convenience function that returns the result of (filepath:posix).
Path Separators
- (filepath:path-separator) => CHAR procedure
The character that separates directories. On platforms where more than one character is possible, this procedure returns the default one.
- (filepath:path-separator-set) => CHAR-SET procedure
The set of all possible path separator characters.
- (filepath:is-path-separator? CHAR) => BOOL procedure
A predicate that returns whether the given character is a path separator for the current platform.
- (filepath:search-path-separator) => CHAR procedure
The character that is used to separate the entries in the PATH environment variable.
- (filepath:is-search-path-separator? CHAR) => BOOL procedure
A predicate that returns whether the given character can be used a separator in the PATH environment variable.
- (filepath:ext-separator) => CHAR procedure
The character that is used to separate file extensions.
- (filepath:is-ext-separator? CHAR) => BOOL procedure
A predicate that returns whether the given character is a file extension separator.
Search Path
- (filepath:split-search-path STRING) => LIST procedure
Splits a string on the search path separator character.
- (filepath:get-search-path) => STRING procedure
Returns search path from the OS environment.
Extension procedures
- (filepath:split-extension PATH) => (NAME EXT) procedure
Splits path on the last extension.
- (filepath:take-extension PATH) => EXT procedure
Returns last extension of given path, or empty string.
- (filepath:replace-extension PATH EXT) => PATH procedure
Replaces the last path extension with the given extension.
- (filepath:drop-extension PATH) => PATH procedure
Removes last extension and extension separator preceding it.
- (filepath:add-extension PATH EXT) => PATH procedure
Appends an extension to the given path.
- (filepath:has-extension? PATH) => BOOL procedure
Returns true if the given path has an extension.
- (filepath:split-all-extensions PATH) => (NAME EXT) procedure
Splits path on the first extension.
- (filepath:drop-all-extensions PATH) => PATH procedure
Removes all extensions from the path.
- (filepath:take-all-extensions PATH) => EXT procedure
Returns all extensions from the path.
Drive procedures
- filepath:split-drive procedure
Splits a path into a Windows drive and a path. When in POSIX mode, / is treated as a drive.
- (filepath:join-drive DRIVE PATH) => PATH procedure
Joins a drive and the rest of the path.
- (filepath:take-drive PATH) => DRIVE procedure
Returns the drive of a path.
- (filepath:has-drive? PATH) => BOOL procedure
Returns whether the given path has a drive.
- (filepath:drop-drive PATH) => PATH procedure
Removes the drive from the given path.
- (filepath:is-drive? STRING) => BOOL procedure
Returns true if the given string is a drive specification.
Operations on a file path
- (filepath:split-file-name PATH) => (DIR FILE) procedure
Splits a path into directory and file.
- (filepath:take-file-name PATH) => FILE procedure
Returns the filename component of a path.
- (filepath:replace-file-name PATH FILE) => PATH procedure
Replaces the filename component of a path with the given one.
- (filepath:drop-file-name PATH) => PATH procedure
Removes the filename component of a path.
- (filepath:take-base-name PATH) => STRING procedure
Returns the base file name (no extension) of a path.
- (filepath:replace-base-name PATH BASE) => PATH procedure
Replaces the base file name of a path with the given one.
- (filepath:take-directory PATH) => DIR procedure
Returns the directory component of a path.
- (filepath:replace-directory PATH DIR) => PATH procedure
Replaces the directory component of a path with the given one.
- (filepath:combine PATH1 PATH2) => PATH procedure
Combines two paths. If the second path is absolute, then it returns the second.
- (filepath:split-path PATH) => LIST procedure
Splits a path by the directory separator.
- (filepath:join-path LIST) => PATH procedure
Joins path elements back together.
- filepath:split-directories procedure
As split-path, but does not add trailing separators to each element.
Trailing Separators
File Name Normalization and Predicates
- (filepath:normalise PATH) => PATH procedure
- (filepath:is-relative? PATH) => BOOL procedure
- (filepath:is-absolute? PATH) => BOOL procedure
- (filepath:is-valid? PATH) => BOOL procedure
- (filepath:make-valid PATH) => PATH procedure
Requires
Version History
- 1.5 Fixed a bug in is-relative? (thanks to Christian Kellermann for reporting)
- 1.3 Ensure that unit test scripts returns proper exit code
- 1.2.2 Added test as a test dependency
- 1.2.1 Changed import to require-extension
- 1.2 Fix in filepath:posix
- 1.1 Ported to Chicken 4
- 1.0 Initial Release
License
Based on the Haskell FilePath library by Neil Mitchell.
Copyright 2008-2012 Ivan Raikov.
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