On 21/05/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/21/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any plans to implement a filename relativiser?
>
> i.e., given an absolute directory and absolute filename it would
> return a relative filename.
>
> e.g. (in Unix syntax):
>
> /a/b/c and /a/b/c/d/e.txt => d/e.txt
>
> and optionally:
>
> /a/b/c/f and /a/b/c/d/e.txt => ../d/e.txt
>
> It does not look particularly difficult to do, but it does not seem
> trivial either, so it might be a useful addition to Commons IO...
+1 sounds like a good candidate for FilenameUtils - commons JCI has a
"relative" method in its ConverstionUtils class
s/stion/sion/
http://tinyurl.com/2kj6ul
Thanks. That would handle the first case above, but not the optional case.
The optional case probably needs a "dottiness" (!) limit - i.e. how
many ".." segments are allowed.
S.
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