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filepath

Description

The filepath library contains procedures for cross-platform parsing and manipulation of file paths. It supports both Windows and POSIX paths, including Windows share paths.

Library Procedures

Platform Flags

<procedure>(filepath:posix [BOOL]) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

If invoked without arguments, this procedure returns whether the library procedures assume POSIX-style paths or not. Invoking the procedure with a boolean argument disables or enables POSIX-style paths. If set to false, the library procedures assume Windows-style paths.

<procedure>(filepath:is-windows?) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

Convenience function that returns the inverse of (filepath:posix).

<procedure>(filepath:is-posix?) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

Convenience function that returns the result of (filepath:posix).

Path Separators

<procedure>(filepath:path-separator) ⇒ CHAR</procedure>

The character that separates directories. On platforms where more than one character is possible, this procedure returns the default one.

<procedure>(filepath:path-separator-set) ⇒ CHAR-SET</procedure>

The set of all possible path separator characters.

<procedure>(filepath:is-path-separator? CHAR) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

A predicate that returns whether the given character is a path separator for the current platform.

<procedure>(filepath:search-path-separator) ⇒ CHAR</procedure>

The character that is used to separate the entries in the PATH environment variable.

<procedure>(filepath:is-search-path-separator? CHAR) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

A predicate that returns whether the given character can be used a separator in the PATH environment variable.

<procedure>(filepath:ext-separator) ⇒ CHAR</procedure>

The character that is used to separate file extensions.

<procedure>(filepath:is-ext-separator? CHAR) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

A predicate that returns whether the given character is a file extension separator.

Search Path

<procedure>(filepath:split-search-path STRING) ⇒ LIST</procedure>

Splits a string on the search path separator character.

<procedure>(filepath:get-search-path) ⇒ STRING</procedure>

Returns search path from the OS environment.

Extension procedures

<procedure>(filepath:split-extension PATH) ⇒ (NAME EXT)</procedure>

Splits path on the last extension.

<procedure>(filepath:take-extension PATH) ⇒ EXT</procedure>

Returns last extension of given path, or empty string.

<procedure>(filepath:replace-extension PATH EXT) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

 

Replaces the last path extension with the given extension.

<procedure>(filepath:drop-extension PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Removes last extension and extension separator preceding it.

<procedure>(filepath:add-extension PATH EXT) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Appends an extension to the given path.

<procedure>(filepath:has-extension? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

Returns true if the given path has an extension.

<procedure>(filepath:split-all-extensions PATH) ⇒ (NAME EXT)</procedure>

Splits path on the first extension.

<procedure>(filepath:drop-all-extensions PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Removes all extensions from the path.

<procedure>(filepath:take-all-extensions PATH) ⇒ EXT</procedure>

Returns all extensions from the path.

Drive procedures

<procedure>filepath:split-drive</procedure>

Splits a path into a Windows drive and a path. When in POSIX mode, / is treated as a drive.

<procedure>(filepath:join-drive DRIVE PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Joins a drive and the rest of the path.

<procedure>(filepath:take-drive PATH) ⇒ DRIVE</procedure>

Returns the drive of a path.

<procedure>(filepath:has-drive? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

Returns whether the given path has a drive.

<procedure>(filepath:drop-drive PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Removes the drive from the given path.

<procedure>(filepath:is-drive? STRING) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

Returns true if the given string is a drive specification.

Operations on a file path

<procedure>(filepath:split-file-name PATH) ⇒ (DIR FILE)</procedure>

Splits a path into directory and file.

<procedure>(filepath:take-file-name PATH) ⇒ FILE</procedure>

Returns the filename component of a path.

<procedure>(filepath:replace-file-name PATH FILE) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Replaces the filename component of a path with the given one.

<procedure>(filepath:drop-file-name PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Removes the filename component of a path.

<procedure>(filepath:take-base-name PATH) ⇒ STRING</procedure>

Returns the base file name (no extension) of a path.

<procedure>(filepath:replace-base-name PATH BASE) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Replaces the base file name of a path with the given one.

<procedure>(filepath:take-directory PATH) ⇒ DIR</procedure>

Returns the directory component of a path.

<procedure>(filepath:replace-directory PATH DIR) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Replaces the directory component of a path with the given one.

<procedure>(filepath:combine PATH1 PATH2) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Combines two paths. If the second path is absolute, then it returns the second.

<procedure>(filepath:split-path PATH) ⇒ LIST</procedure>

Splits a path by the directory separator.

<procedure>(filepath:join-path LIST) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Joins path elements back together.

<procedure>filepath:split-directories</procedure>

As split-path, but does not add trailing separators to each element.

Trailing Separators

<procedure>(filepath:has-trailing-path-separator? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:add-trailing-path-separator PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:drop-trailing-path-separator PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

File Name Normalization and Predicates

<procedure>(filepath:normalise PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:path-equal? PATH1 PATH2) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:make-relative ROOT PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:is-relative? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:is-absolute? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:is-valid? PATH) ⇒ BOOL</procedure>

<procedure>(filepath:make-valid PATH) ⇒ PATH</procedure>

Requires

matchable

Version History

License

Based on the Haskell FilePath library by Neil Mitchell.

Copyright 2008 Ivan Raikov.

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