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Function `std.path.isRooted`

Determines whether a path starts at a root directory.


						
				bool isRooted(R)
				(
				

				  R path
				

				)
				

				if (isRandomAccessRange!R && isSomeChar!(ElementType!R) || is(StringTypeOf!R));

Parameters

Name	Description
path	A path name.

Returns

Whether a path starts at a root directory.

On POSIX, this function returns true if and only if the path starts with a slash (/).

On Windows, this function returns true if the path starts at the root directory of the current drive, of some other drive, or of a network drive.

Example

version (Posix)
{
    assert( isRooted("/"));
    assert( isRooted("/foo"));
    assert(!isRooted("foo"));
    assert(!isRooted("../foo"));
}

version (Windows)
{
    assert( isRooted(`\`));
    assert( isRooted(`\foo`));
    assert( isRooted(`d:\foo`));
    assert( isRooted(`\\foo\bar`));
    assert(!isRooted("foo"));
    assert(!isRooted("d:foo"));
}

Authors

Lars Tandle Kyllingstad, Walter Bright, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz, Thomas Kühne, Andrei Alexandrescu

License

Boost License 1.0