Re: Generating absolute path

> Hi.
>
> I need to find out the absolute path given a path, for instance
>
> ./myfile.pl  ==>> /dir1/dir2/myfile.pl
> ../otherfile.pl ==>> /dir1/otherfile.pl
> ./folder/file42.txt ==>>  /dir1/dir2/folder/file42.txt
> ...
>
> I looked in the documentation of YAP, and found this predicate:
>
> prolog_file_name(+Name,-FullPath )
> Unify FullPath with the absolute path YAP would use to consult file
> Name.
>
> However, YAP tells me that this predicate doesn't exist. And the
> documentation doesn't say that this predicate is in a library, so I
> assume it's built in and thus should be available.
> I also ran find on the YAP source folder, but no file except yap.tex/
> yap.pdf/yap.html contains the string "prolog_file_name".
>
> Here are my questions:
> Does prolog_file_name/2 really exist? If yes, will it do what I need?
> If no, is there another way to get what I need?
>
> I'm using the GIT version of Yap-5.1.4.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Bernd
>
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