Library for manipulating FilePaths in a cross platform way.
This package provides functionality for manipulating
FilePath
values, and is shipped with
GHC. It provides two variants for
filepaths:
- legacy filepaths: type FilePath = String
- operating system abstracted filepaths (OsPath):
internally unpinned ShortByteString (platform-dependent
encoding)
It is recommended to use
OsPath when possible, because it is
more correct.
For each variant there are three main modules:
For more powerful string manipulation of
OsPath, you can use
the
os-string package (
OsPath is a type synonym for
OsString).
An introduction into the new API can be found in this
blog
post. Code examples for the new API can be found
here.