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| From: | Peter J. Acklam |
| Subject: | Re: NON-trivial regular expression problem (could not find on google) |
| Date: | Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:17:20 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) |
democrat@india.com (Instant Democracy) wrote: > The task is to eliminate patterns such as > DIRNAME/../ > from the path because they are redundant. Are they really? If DIRNAME is a symlink, then there is no guarantee that these two point to the same place: foo/bar/.. foo You *must* ensure that DIRNAME is not a symlink before you simplify the pathnames like this. Peter -- I wish dialog boxes had a butten saying "Whatever". I hate being forced to answer "Yes" or "No" to a question I have no opinion on whatsoever. There ought to be a button matching my indifference.
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