canonicalize_filename(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual				    canonicalize_filename(3alleg4)

NAME

       canonicalize_filename - Converts any filename into its canonical form. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       char *canonicalize_filename(char *dest, const char *filename, int size);

DESCRIPTION

       Converts  any  filename	into  its  canonical  form,  i.e. the minimal absolute filename describing the same file and fixing incorrect for-
       ward/backward slashes for the current platform, storing at most `size' bytes into the `dest' buffer. You can use the same  buffer  both	as
       input and output because Allegro internally works on a copy of the input before touching `dest'. Example:

	  char buf[256];
	  ...
	  canonicalize_filename(buf, "~/../s22/..\t3st///hi.c",
				sizeof(buf));
	  /* Running this under Unix would
	     return: /home/t3st/hi.c */

       Note  that  this  function  won't  work as expected if the path to canonicalize comes from another platform (eg. a "c:something" path will
       canonicalize into something really wrong under Unix: "/current/path/c:/something").

RETURN VALUE

       Returns a copy of the `dest' parameter.

SEE ALSO

       fix_filename_case(3alleg4), fix_filename_slashes(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2				    canonicalize_filename(3alleg4)