relative-path

For reference. The absolute path is the full path to some place on your computer. The relative path is the path to some file with respect to your current working directory (PWD). For example: Absolute path: C:/users/admin/docs/stuff.txt If my PWD is C:/users/admin/ , then the relative path to stuff.txt would be: docs/stuff.txt Note, PWD + relative path = absolute path. Cool, awesome. Now, I wrote some scripts which check if a file exists. os.chdir("C:/users/admin/docs") os.path.exists("stuff.txt") This returns TRUE if stuff.txt exists and it works . Now, instead if I write, os.path.exists("C:

Given two absolute paths, e.g. /a/path/to/a /a/path/to/somewhere/else How can I get a relative path from one to the other, ../a ? In a sense, the opposite of what realpath does. Thomas Dickey I answered a similar question here: Resolving a relative path without referencing the current directory on Windows . There is no standard function for this. There is a function in vi-like-emacs for this purpose. A quick check of apropos relative shows me few other programs which likely implement this: revpath for example). It could be done as a string-manipulation (no need to compute working directories):

I'm, a WPF & Xaml-noob, for console applications it has worked for me to simply give the relative path to the executable to access a file. It doesn't seem to work in xaml for me. (code at the bottom) Absolute path works perfectly. Is it possible in XAML in a WPF-application to access a file by simply using a relative path to the directory of your executable as a valid UriSource? If yes how and if not why not? I found the following question, where they were talking about adding the file via Visual Studio's "Add existing item", so it seems like a different issue. How can I set the WPF

How can I determine the absolute path of a file or directory from a given relative path in C/C++ on GNU/Linux? I know about realpath() , but it does not work on non-existing files. Let's say the user enters ../non-existant-directory/file.txt , and the programs working directory is /home/user/ . What I need is a function that returns /home/non-existant-directory/file.txt . I need this function to check if a given path is in a certain subdirectory or not. Try realpath . If it fails, start removing path components from the end one at a time and retrying realpath until it succeeds. Then append the

I have a site that I am working on and I am trying to go to the main directory of the site and I do not know how to set that up. What I am trying to do is include _inc/config.php through /_inc/config.php instead of having to use ../_inc/config.php Any ideas how to add this? Generally speaking, there are two different problems to solve when dealing with paths: Filesystem paths (which you need to use to include a file) URL paths (which you need to use when building a URL internal to your application) These are two different beasts. Filesystem paths If your application has a single point of entry

I am trying to generate a spreadsheet in .NET which will be opened by my manager on his iPad when he's out of the office. The spreadsheet opens fine on a Windows PC, but when trying to open on the iPad it says "An error occurred while reading the document" (so useful!) By using the "Compare" feature on the OpenXML SDK Productivity tool with a document that does open on the iPad, and by doing some manual editing of the faulty document's XML files in notepad I have narrowed it down to the file xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels which stores the relationships of the parts in the workbook. This is the

There are two directories on my desktop, DIR1 and DIR2 which contain the following files: DIR1: file1.py DIR2: file2.py myfile.txt The files contain the following: file1.py import sys sys.path.append('.') sys.path.append('../DIR2') import file2 file2.py import sys sys.path.append( '.' ) sys.path.append( '../DIR2' ) MY_FILE = "myfile.txt" myfile = open(MY_FILE) myfile.txt some text Now, there are two scenarios. The first works, the second gives an error. Scenario 1 I cd into DIR2 and run file2.py and it runs no problem. Scenario 2 I cd into DIR1 and run file1.py and it throws an error:

I was wondering how to specifiy a relative path name to a text file that is stored in my src folder of a java project. I would like to store a string with the path of this text file. For example if I had example.txt located in the src folder of my java project how would I go about finding its relative path? I am also doing this in my main so I'm having trouble using .getResource(). How would I do this? Thanks. My files path is as followed from the properties in eclipse /MyProject/src/data.txt I've tried: String path = "/MyProject/src/data.txt"; But that doesn't work? If you are using eclipse,