relative-path

Portable, relative paths for Rust.

Documentation

Relative Paths

This library provides two structures: RelativePath and RelativePathBuf. These are analogous to the Path and PathBuf structures provided through standard rust.

While Path provides an API that adapts to a given platform, RelativePath is platform-neutral.

RelativePath only uses / as a separator. Anything else will be considered part of distinct components.

Only relative paths are permitted to be represented using this structure. Conversion to Path can only happen if it is provided which path it is relative to, through the to_path_buf function.

let relative_path = RelativePath::new("foo/bar");
let path = Path::new("C:\\");
let full_path = relative_path.to_path_buf(path);

Portability Note

RelativePath similarly to Path makes no guarantees that the components represented in them makes up a legal filesystem path. Notable, NUL is not permitted on most unix platforms (this is a terminator in C-based filesystem APIs). Windows also has a number of reserved characters.