FExpand

Expand a relative path to an absolute path

Declaration

Source position: dosh.inc line 117

function FExpand(

const path: PathStr

):PathStr;

Description

FExpand takes its argument and expands it to a complete filename, i.e. a filename starting from the root directory of the current drive, prepended with the drive-letter or volume name (when supported).

Remark:

On case sensitive file systems (such as unix and linux), the resulting name is left as it is, otherwise it is converted to uppercase.

Errors

FSplit

Example

Program Example11;
uses Dos;

{ Program to demonstrate the FExpand function. }

begin
  WriteLn('Expanded Name of this program is ',FExpand(ParamStr(0)));
end.

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