From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-26T23:08:47+09:00
Subject: Re: expand_path and overlap

Hi,

At Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:42:03 +0900,
Morris, Chris <chris.morris@snelling.com> wrote:
> > I find this an interesting puzzle.  Question:  what would this return:
> > 
> >    collapse_path("b/c/f", "/a/b/c/d/e/b/c/g/h")
> >    #^^^^^^^^^^^^ or whatever :-)
> 
> At the moment, I'm thinking it should be:
> 
>   /a/b/c/d/e/b/c/f
> 
> (which could probably be gathered from my other recent post :)

I'm not sure, is this like what you want?

  def collapse_path(path, base)
    head, = path.split("/", 2)
    base.rindex(%r"(\A|.*/)#{Regexp.quote(head)}(?:/|\z)")
    ($1 or base) + path
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada