Re: dirEntries returns relative, not absolute paths

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn]

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6133

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-learn  wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 06, 2018 18:58:43 number via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#dirEntries
>>
>> >> The name of each iterated directory entry contains the
>> >> absolute path.
>>
>> it seems to be absolute only if the specified path is absolute,
>> or always relative to the parent dir of the specified path.
>
> Then the docs need to be fixed.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Re: dirEntries returns relative, not absolute paths

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, February 06, 2018 18:58:43 number via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#dirEntries
>
> >> The name of each iterated directory entry contains the
> >> absolute path.
>
> it seems to be absolute only if the specified path is absolute,
> or always relative to the parent dir of the specified path.

Then the docs need to be fixed.

- Jonathan M Davis

dirEntries returns relative, not absolute paths

[number via Digitalmars-d-learn]

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#dirEntries
The name of each iterated directory entry contains the 
absolute path.


it seems to be absolute only if the specified path is absolute, 
or always relative to the parent dir of the specified path.


import std.stdio;import std.stdio;

void main()
{
import std.file;
import std.path;

assert(!"dir".exists);
scope(exit) if ("dir".exists) rmdirRecurse("dir");
mkdirRecurse("dir/dir1/dir2/dir3");

writeln("-");
foreach (DirEntry e; dirEntries("dir", SpanMode.breadth))
{
writeln("e: " ~ e);
}

writeln("-");
	foreach (DirEntry e; dirEntries("../" ~ getcwd.baseName ~ 
"/dir", SpanMode.breadth))

{
writeln("e: " ~ e);
}

writeln("-");
	foreach (DirEntry e; dirEntries(getcwd ~ "/dir", 
SpanMode.breadth))

{
writeln("e: " ~ e);
}

//  -
//  e: dir/dir1
//  e: dir/dir1/dir2
//  e: dir/dir1/dir2/dir3
//  -
//  e: ../dTests/dir/dir1
//  e: ../dTests/dir/dir1/dir2
//  e: ../dTests/dir/dir1/dir2/dir3
//  -
//  e: /home/user/dTests/dir/dir1
//  e: /home/user/dTests/dir/dir1/dir2
//  e: /home/user/dTests/dir/dir1/dir2/dir3
}