/* strippath.c -- remove unnecessary components from a path specifier Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include static void remove_component(char *beginc, char *endc); void strip_trailing_slashes(char *path); /* Remove unnecessary components from PATH. */ void strip_path (path) char *path; { int stripped = 0; char *cp, *slash; for (cp = path; *(slash = cp + strcspn (cp, "/\\")) != '\0'; cp = slash) { *slash = '\0'; if ((!*cp && (cp != path || stripped)) || strcmp(cp, ".") == 0 || strcmp(cp, "/") == 0) { stripped = 1; remove_component(cp, slash); slash = cp; } else { *slash++ = '/'; } } strip_trailing_slashes(path); } /* Remove the component delimited by BEGINC and ENDC from the path */ static void remove_component (beginc, endc) char *beginc; char *endc; { for (endc++; *endc; endc++) *beginc++ = *endc; *beginc = '\0'; }