Why file.exists of relative path on Linux always return false?
Edwin van Leeuwen via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 29 07:01:52 PST 2016
On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 14:58:46 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
> On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 14:50:51 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> I am trying to check relative path on Linux for exists.
>>
>> string mypath = "~/Documents/imgs";
>
> ~ is expanded by your shell. It is not a relative path, and
> system calls do not recognize it (same with environmental
> variables).
D can expand tilde with expandTilde:
import std.path : expandTilde;
string mypath = expandTilde("~/Documents/imgs");
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