Path.Combine for URLs?

Question

Path.Combine is handy, but is there a similar function in the .NET framework for URLs?

I\'m looking for syntax like this:

Url.Combine(\"http://MyUrl.         


        

Answer 1

I created this function that will make your life easier:

    /// 

    /// The ultimate Path combiner of all time
    /// 
    /// 
    /// true - if the paths are Internet URLs, false - if the paths are local URLs, this is very important as this will be used to decide which separator will be used.
    /// 
    /// Just adds the separator at the beginning
    /// Fix the paths from within (by removing duplicate separators and correcting the separators)
    /// The paths to combine
    /// the combined path
    public static string PathCombine(bool IsURL , bool IsRelative , bool IsFixInternal , params string[] parts)
    {
        if (parts == null || parts.Length == 0) return string.Empty;
        char separator = IsURL ? '/' : '\\';

        if (parts.Length == 1 && IsFixInternal)
        {
            string validsingle;
            if (IsURL)
            {
                validsingle = parts[0].Replace('\\' , '/');
            }
            else
            {
                validsingle = parts[0].Replace('/' , '\\');
            }
            validsingle = validsingle.Trim(separator);
            return (IsRelative ? separator.ToString() : string.Empty) + validsingle;
        }

        string final = parts
            .Aggregate
            (
            (string first , string second) =>
            {
                string validfirst;
                string validsecond;
                if (IsURL)
                {
                    validfirst = first.Replace('\\' , '/');
                    validsecond = second.Replace('\\' , '/');
                }
                else
                {
                    validfirst = first.Replace('/' , '\\');
                    validsecond = second.Replace('/' , '\\');
                }
                var prefix = string.Empty;
                if (IsFixInternal)
                {
                    if (IsURL)
                    {
                        if (validfirst.Contains("://"))
                        {
                            var tofix = validfirst.Substring(validfirst.IndexOf("://") + 3);
                            prefix = validfirst.Replace(tofix , string.Empty).TrimStart(separator);

                            var tofixlist = tofix.Split(new[] { separator } , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                            validfirst = separator + string.Join(separator.ToString() , tofixlist);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            var firstlist = validfirst.Split(new[] { separator } , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                            validfirst = string.Join(separator.ToString() , firstlist);
                        }

                        var secondlist = validsecond.Split(new[] { separator } , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                        validsecond = string.Join(separator.ToString() , secondlist);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        var firstlist = validfirst.Split(new[] { separator } , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                        var secondlist = validsecond.Split(new[] { separator } , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                        validfirst = string.Join(separator.ToString() , firstlist);
                        validsecond = string.Join(separator.ToString() , secondlist);
                    }
                }
                return prefix + validfirst.Trim(separator) + separator + validsecond.Trim(separator);
            }
            );
        return (IsRelative ? separator.ToString() : string.Empty) + final;
    }

It works for URLs as well as normal paths.

Usage:

    // Fixes internal paths
    Console.WriteLine(PathCombine(true , true , true , @"\/\/folder 1\/\/\/\\/\folder2\///folder3\\/" , @"/\somefile.ext\/\//\"));
    // Result: /folder 1/folder2/folder3/somefile.ext

    // Doesn't fix internal paths
    Console.WriteLine(PathCombine(true , true , false , @"\/\/folder 1\/\/\/\\/\folder2\///folder3\\/" , @"/\somefile.ext\/\//\"));
    //result : /folder 1//////////folder2////folder3/somefile.ext

    // Don't worry about URL prefixes when fixing internal paths
    Console.WriteLine(PathCombine(true , false , true , @"/\/\/https:/\/\/\lul.com\/\/\/\\/\folder2\///folder3\\/" , @"/\somefile.ext\/\//\"));
    // Result: https://lul.com/folder2/folder3/somefile.ext

    Console.WriteLine(PathCombine(false , true , true , @"../../../\\..\...\./../somepath" , @"anotherpath"));
    // Result: \..\..\..\..\...\.\..\somepath\anotherpath