From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <stathy.touloumis@...>
Date: 2002-04-27T00:13:32+09:00
Subject: RE: File.join removing redundant /'s

File::Spec->canonpath( '/foo//bar//baz' );
/foo/bar/baz

Is there an equivalent in ruby?

> ruby 1.6.6
> 
> irb(main):004:0> File.join("/foo/","bar/","baz")
> "/foo//bar//baz"
> 
> i would expect this to be:
> 
> "/foo/bar/baz"
> 
> makes no difference to the OS (AFAIK), just easier on the eyes when
> printed.
> 
> (The Perl hacker sitting next to me says that Perl's File::Spec->catfile 
>  acts like this.)