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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.8"/><title>15.1 Paths</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../scribble.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="extras.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-style.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../doc-site.css" title="default"/><script type="text/javascript" src="../scribble-common.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../manual-racket.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../manual-racket.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../doc-site.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../local-redirect/local-redirect.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../local-redirect/local-user-redirect.js"></script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">.SIEHidden { overflow: hidden; }</style><![endif]--></head><body id="doc-racket-lang-org"><div class="tocset"><div class="tocview"><div class="tocviewlist tocviewlisttopspace"><div class="tocviewtitle"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="width: 1em;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="Expand/Collapse" class="tocviewtoggle" onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_0");">►</a></td><td></td><td><a href="index.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">The Racket Reference</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="tocviewsublisttop" style="display: none;" id="tocview_0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right">1 </td><td><a href="model.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Language Model</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">2 </td><td><a href="notation.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Notation for Documentation</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">3 </td><td><a href="syntax.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Syntactic Forms</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">4 </td><td><a href="data.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Datatypes</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">5 </td><td><a href="structures.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Structures</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">6 </td><td><a href="mzlib_class.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Classes and Objects</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">7 </td><td><a href="mzlib_unit.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Units</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">8 </td><td><a href="contracts.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Contracts</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">9 </td><td><a href="match.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Pattern Matching</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">10 </td><td><a href="control.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Control Flow</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">11 </td><td><a href="concurrency.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Concurrency and Parallelism</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">12 </td><td><a href="Macros.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Macros</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">13 </td><td><a href="input-and-output.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Input and Output</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">14 </td><td><a href="security.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Reflection and Security</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">15 </td><td><a href="os.html" class="tocviewselflink" data-pltdoc="x">Operating System</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">16 </td><td><a href="memory.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Memory Management</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">17 </td><td><a href="unsafe.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Unsafe Operations</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">18 </td><td><a href="running.html" class="tocviewlink
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path can be provided either as a string or as an instance of the
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<a name="(tech._path)"></a><span style="font-style: italic">path</span> datatype. If a string is provided, it is converted to a
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path using <span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._string-~3epath%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">string->path</a></span>. Beware that some paths may not
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be representable as strings; see <a href="unixpaths.html#%28part._unixpathrep%29" data-pltdoc="x">Unix Path Representation</a> and
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<a href="windowspaths.html#%28part._windowspathrep%29" data-pltdoc="x">Windows Path Representation</a> for more information.
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A Racket procedure that generates a
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filesystem path always generates a <a href="pathutils.html#%28tech._path%29" class="techoutside" data-pltdoc="x"><span class="techinside">path</span></a> value.</p><p>By default, paths are created and manipulated for the current
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platform, but procedures that merely manipulate paths (without using
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the filesystem) can manipulate paths using conventions for other
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supported platforms. The <span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._bytes-~3epath%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">bytes->path</a></span> procedure accepts an
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optional argument that indicates the platform for the path, either
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<span class="RktVal">'</span><span class="RktVal">unix</span> or <span class="RktVal">'</span><span class="RktVal">windows</span>. For other functions, such as
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._build-path%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">build-path</a></span> or <span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._simplify-path%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">simplify-path</a></span>, the behavior is
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sensitive to the kind of path that is supplied. Unless otherwise
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specified, a procedure that requires a path accepts only paths for the
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current platform.</p><p>Two <a href="pathutils.html#%28tech._path%29" class="techoutside" data-pltdoc="x"><span class="techinside">path</span></a> values are <span class="RktSym"><a href="Equality.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._equal~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">equal?</a></span> when they are use the same
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convention type and when their byte-string representations are
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Equality.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._equal~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">equal?</a></span>. A path string (or byte string) cannot be empty, and
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it cannot contain a nul character or byte. When an empty string or a
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string containing nul is provided as a path to any procedure except
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._absolute-path~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">absolute-path?</a></span>, <span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._relative-path~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">relative-path?</a></span>, or
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._complete-path~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">complete-path?</a></span>, the <span class="RktSym"><a href="exns.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fprivate%2Fbase..rkt%29._exn~3afail~3acontract%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">exn:fail:contract</a></span> exception is raised.</p><p>Most Racket primitives that accept paths first <a name="(tech._cleanse)"></a><span style="font-style: italic">cleanse</span> the
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path before using it. Procedures that build paths or merely check the
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form of a path do not cleanse paths, with the exceptions of
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._cleanse-path%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">cleanse-path</a></span>, <span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._expand-user-path%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">expand-user-path</a></span>, and
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="Manipulating_Paths.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._simplify-path%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">simplify-path</a></span>. For more information about path cleansing and
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other platform-specific details, see <a href="unixpaths.html" data-pltdoc="x">Unix and Mac OS Paths</a> and
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