use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA $VERSION);
-$VERSION = '0.86';
+$VERSION = '3.18';
+$VERSION = eval $VERSION;
my %module = (MacOS => 'Mac',
MSWin32 => 'Win32',
VMS => 'VMS',
epoc => 'Epoc',
NetWare => 'Win32', # Yes, File::Spec::Win32 works on NetWare.
- dos => 'OS2', # Yes, File::Spec::OS2 works on DJGPP.
+ symbian => 'Win32', # Yes, File::Spec::Win32 works on symbian.
+ dos => 'OS2', # Yes, File::Spec::OS2 works on DJGPP.
cygwin => 'Cygwin');
$cpath = File::Spec->canonpath( $path ) ;
+Note that this does *not* collapse F<x/../y> sections into F<y>. This
+is by design. If F</foo> on your system is a symlink to F</bar/baz>,
+then F</foo/../quux> is actually F</bar/quux>, not F</quux> as a naive
+F<../>-removal would give you. If you want to do this kind of
+processing, you probably want C<Cwd>'s C<realpath()> function to
+actually traverse the filesystem cleaning up paths like this.
+
=item catdir
Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting
string, because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses
-OS2. Of course, if this is the root directory, don't cut off the
+OS/2. Of course, if this is the root directory, don't cut off the
trailing slash :-)
$path = File::Spec->catdir( @directories );
Returns a string representation of the first writable directory from a
list of possible temporary directories. Returns the current directory
if no writable temporary directories are found. The list of directories
-checked depends on the platform; e.g. File::Spec::Unix checks $ENV{TMPDIR}
-(unless taint is on) and /tmp.
+checked depends on the platform; e.g. File::Spec::Unix checks C<$ENV{TMPDIR}>
+(unless taint is on) and F</tmp>.
$tmpdir = File::Spec->tmpdir();
=item case_tolerant
Returns a true or false value indicating, respectively, that alphabetic
-is not or is significant when comparing file specifications.
+case is not or is significant when comparing file specifications.
$is_case_tolerant = File::Spec->case_tolerant();
=item file_name_is_absolute
-Takes as argument a path and returns true if it is an absolute path.
+Takes as its argument a path, and returns true if it is an absolute path.
$is_absolute = File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute( $path );
=item path
-Takes no argument, returns the environment variable PATH as an array.
+Takes no argument. Returns the environment variable C<PATH> (or the local
+platform's equivalent) as a list.
@PATH = File::Spec->path();
($volume,$directories,$file) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path, $no_file );
For systems with no syntax differentiating filenames from directories,
-assumes that the last file is a path unless $no_file is true or a
-trailing separator or /. or /.. is present. On Unix this means that $no_file
+assumes that the last file is a path unless C<$no_file> is true or a
+trailing separator or F</.> or F</..> is present. On Unix, this means that C<$no_file>
true makes this return ( '', $path, '' ).
The directory portion may or may not be returned with a trailing '/'.
@dirs = File::Spec->splitdir( $directories );
-$directories must be only the directory portion of the path on systems
+C<$directories> must be only the directory portion of the path on systems
that have the concept of a volume or that have path syntax that differentiates
files from directories.
Unlike just splitting the directories on the separator, empty
directory names (C<''>) can be returned, because these are significant
-on some OSs.
+on some OSes.
=item catpath()
Takes volume, directory and file portions and returns an entire path. Under
-Unix, $volume is ignored, and directory and file are concatenated. A '/' is
-inserted if need be. On other OSs, $volume is significant.
+Unix, C<$volume> is ignored, and directory and file are concatenated. A '/' is
+inserted if need be. On other OSes, C<$volume> is significant.
$full_path = File::Spec->catpath( $volume, $directory, $file );
$rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel( $path ) ;
$rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel( $path, $base ) ;
-If $base is not present or '', then L<cwd()|Cwd> is used. If $base is
+If C<$base> is not present or '', then L<Cwd::cwd()|Cwd> is used. If C<$base> is
relative, then it is converted to absolute form using
L</rel2abs()>. This means that it is taken to be relative to
-L<cwd()|Cwd>.
+L<Cwd::cwd()|Cwd>.
-On systems with the concept of a volume, this assumes that both paths
-are on the $destination volume, and ignores the $base volume. If this
-assumption may be wrong (like in VMS), trying to "unify" the paths
-abs2rel() results in nonsense.
+On systems with the concept of volume, if C<$path> and C<$base> appear to be
+on two different volumes, we will not attempt to resolve the two
+paths, and we will instead simply return C<$path>. Note that previous
+versions of this module ignored the volume of C<$base>, which resulted in
+garbage results part of the time.
On systems that have a grammar that indicates filenames, this ignores the
-$base filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
+C<$base> filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
directories.
-If $path is relative, it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>.
-This means that it is taken to be relative to L<cwd()|Cwd>.
+If C<$path> is relative, it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>.
+This means that it is taken to be relative to L<Cwd::cwd()|Cwd>.
No checks against the filesystem are made. On VMS, there is
interaction with the working environment, as logicals and
$abs_path = File::Spec->rel2abs( $path ) ;
$abs_path = File::Spec->rel2abs( $path, $base ) ;
-If $base is not present or '', then L<cwd()|Cwd> is used. If $base is relative,
+If C<$base> is not present or '', then L<Cwd::cwd()|Cwd> is used. If C<$base> is relative,
then it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>. This means that it
-is taken to be relative to L<cwd()|Cwd>.
+is taken to be relative to L<Cwd::cwd()|Cwd>.
-On systems with the concept of a volume, this assumes that both paths
-are on the $base volume, and ignores the $path volume.
+On systems with the concept of volume, if C<$path> and C<$base> appear to be
+on two different volumes, we will not attempt to resolve the two
+paths, and we will instead simply return C<$path>. Note that previous
+versions of this module ignored the volume of C<$base>, which resulted in
+garbage results part of the time.
On systems that have a grammar that indicates filenames, this ignores the
-$base filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
+C<$base> filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
directories.
-If $path is absolute, it is cleaned up and returned using L</canonpath()>.
+If C<$path> is absolute, it is cleaned up and returned using L</canonpath()>.
No checks against the filesystem are made. On VMS, there is
interaction with the working environment, as logicals and
L<File::Spec::Win32>, L<File::Spec::VMS>, L<File::Spec::Functions>,
L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>
-=head1 AUTHORS
-
-Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Andy Dougherty
-<doughera@lafayette.edu>, Andreas KE<ouml>nig
-<A.Koenig@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk.
-VMS support by Charles Bailey <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>.
-OS/2 support by Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>.
-Mac support by Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>, and Thomas Wegner
-<wegner_thomas@yahoo.com>. abs2rel() and rel2abs() written by Shigio
-Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com>, modified by Barrie Slaymaker
-<barries@slaysys.com>. splitpath(), splitdir(), catpath() and
-catdir() by Barrie Slaymaker.
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Currently maintained by Ken Williams C<< <KWILLIAMS@cpan.org> >>.
+
+The vast majority of the code was written by
+Kenneth Albanowski C<< <kjahds@kjahds.com> >>,
+Andy Dougherty C<< <doughera@lafayette.edu> >>,
+Andreas KE<ouml>nig C<< <A.Koenig@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE> >>,
+Tim Bunce C<< <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> >>.
+VMS support by Charles Bailey C<< <bailey@newman.upenn.edu> >>.
+OS/2 support by Ilya Zakharevich C<< <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> >>.
+Mac support by Paul Schinder C<< <schinder@pobox.com> >>, and
+Thomas Wegner C<< <wegner_thomas@yahoo.com> >>.
+abs2rel() and rel2abs() written by Shigio Yamaguchi C<< <shigio@tamacom.com> >>,
+modified by Barrie Slaymaker C<< <barries@slaysys.com> >>.
+splitpath(), splitdir(), catpath() and catdir() by Barrie Slaymaker.
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright (c) 2004 by the Perl 5 Porters. All rights reserved.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut