On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I need to accept a filename from the user. Given the user supplied
> filename, I form a fully qualified name:
> 
> NSString* pathName = [NSHomeDirectory(),
> stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];
> NSString* fullPathName = [pathName  stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename];
> 
> How do I canonicalize the the resulting fullPathName to verify there
> was no directory traversal goodness in the filename?

NSString* fullPathName = [pathName  stringByAppendingPathComponent:[filename 
lastPathComponent]];

Cheers,
Ken

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