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 forward/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)