> I have a path, say "dira/dirb/../dirc/file" and I want to
> collapse it to a canonical path "dira/dirc/file".
You could always cheat.
use Cwd;
sub canon_path {
my $path = shift;
my $old_wd = cwd();
chdir $path;
my $cpath = cwd();
chdir $old_cwd;
return $cpath;
}
Sprinkle with error checking for things like non-existent directories,
or directories you can't chdir into as necessary.
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