1. How to get full path...

Hi all!

Does anyone know how to get "full complete file path string" from the
"not-full" path given by user?
For example, Let's assume we have a kind of text viewer, named "eulist.exe",
and the user may give the text file to view to the program in a various way as;

ex)
1) eulist xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
2) eulist ..\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in parent directory
3) eulist .\xxx.doc  -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
4) eulist \xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in a root directory of current drive
5) eulist nowdir\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists sub-directory nowdir of the current
                            directory.
There can be many other ways to specifiy the location of the file...

Is there any way to get the "full file path string" like
"c:\text\docs\xxx.doc"(begins from drive letter and ends by the file name),
from "not-full" ones as above exams?

Thanks in advance!
bye -- from Lee, woo seob

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2. Re: How to get full path...

Lee woo seob  wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Does anyone know how to get "full complete file path string" from the
> "not-full" path given by user?
> For example, Let's assume we have a kind of text viewer, named "eulist.exe",
> and the user may give the text file to view to the program in a various way as
;
>
> ex)
> 1) eulist xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
> 2) eulist ..\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in parent directory
> 3) eulist .\xxx.doc  -- xxx.doc exists in current directory
> 4) eulist \xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists in a root directory of current drive
> 5) eulist nowdir\xxx.doc -- xxx.doc exists sub-directory nowdir of the current
>                             directory.
> There can be many other ways to specifiy the location of the file...
>
> Is there any way to get the "full file path string" like
> "c:\text\docs\xxx.doc"(begins from drive letter and ends by the file name),
> from "not-full" ones as above exams?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> bye -- from Lee, woo seob

Try David Cuny's text gui library;  I believe there is a routine for
exactly that situation somewhere in the file 'files.e', named
full_path().


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