filepath-1.4.200.1: Library for manipulating FilePaths in a cross platform way.

filepath-1.4.200.1: 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:

  1. legacy filepaths: type FilePath = String
  2. 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:

System.OsString is like System.OsPath, but more general purpose. Refer to the documentation of those modules for more information.

An introduction into the new API can be found in this blog post. Code examples for the new API can be found here.

Modules