Re: Newbie question about path

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 06:58 PM, Tima Vaisburd wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> What is the best way to convert relative path to absolute path?
>
> I came up to
>
> NSString * AbsolutePath(NSString * path)
> {
>     if ( ! [path isAbsolutePath] )
>     {
>         NSFileManager * fmgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
>         NSString * dir = [fmgr currentDirectoryPath];
>         NSArray * arr = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: dir, path, nil];
>         path = [[NSString pathWithComponents: arr] 
> stringByStandardizingPath];
>     }
>
>     return path;
> }

The shortest is probably ...

if ([path isAbsolutePath] == NO)
  path = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] currentDirectoryPath] 
stringByAppendingPathComponent: path];

You can standardize it too if that's important.