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)