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Description

Function to strip additional / or \ in a path name

Syntax

static clean($path, $ds=DS)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$path		$path The path to clean
$ds	DS	$ds Directory separator (optional)

Returns

string The cleaned path

Defined in

libraries/joomla/filesystem/path.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.path' );

Source Body

public static function clean($path, $ds=DS)
{
        $path = trim($path);

        if (empty($path)) {
                $path = JPATH_ROOT;
        } else {
                // Remove double slashes and backslahses and convert all slashes and backslashes to DS
                $path = preg_replace('#[/\\\\]+#', $ds, $path);
        }

        return $path;
}