Relative to absolute path

I need to retrieve the absolute path of a file or directory
"..\..\pippo.txt" to "c:\somedir\someotherdir\pippo.txt"
somewhere in the standard C library may exist something i need.

Thanks in advance 

Most likely there is but I don't understand exactly what you
want. Please elaborate and be specific. Thanks.

~ JD

> Most likely there is but I don't understand exactly what you
Directory structure:
c:\somedir00
  c:\somedir01
    c:\somedir02
  c:\somedir10
    pippo.txt

I've an ini file what describe the files contained in a project
ROOTDIR="c:\somedir00\somedir01\somedir02"
THEFILE0="..\..\somedir10\pippo.txt"

When the program load the ini file, set the current directory to 
"c:\somedir00\somedir01\somedir02" with chdir()
the file i've to load is "..\..\somedir10\pippo.txt" so in 
"c:\somedir0\somedir10\pippo.txt".

I need a function that given the path "..\..\somedir10\pippo.txt" retrieve 
the full path "c:\somedir00\somedir10\pippo.txt".
I've quite sure that the function exist but i can't remember it's name 
(SIGH!!!)

Thanks

"PaoloItaly" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:


Definately not in the standard library.  You may have some success
from the Boost.Filesystem library.  (See the function named
complete().)

-- 
Chris (TeamB);

You'll have to build your own.

If you were to manually do it using chdir(), you would change
the directory every time that you encounter a backslash. For
example, given "..\..\somedir10\pippo.txt"

    chdir( ".." );
    chdir( ".." );
    chdir( "somedir10" );

and you're there.

~ JD

Since this is the vcl forum, you can use the VCL function ExpandFileName 
which does that

/Palle 

Hey! That works!

~ JD

Just add them:

   ROOTDIR + "\\" + THEFILE0

will give you:

   "c:\somedir00\somedir01\somedir02\..\..\somedir10\pippo.txt"

Which is the same as:

   "c:\somedir0\somedir10\pippo.txt".

Hans.

Perfect!

and ExtractRelativePath does the rest of work...

Thanks

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