Compares two rooted paths for equality. Any of the paths provided may end with path separator - it will be ignored.
/*
* Filename: FileUtil.cs
* Product: Versioning Controlled Build
* Solution: BuildAutoIncrement
* Project: Shared
* Description: File utility methods.
* Copyright: Julijan ?ribar, 2004-2007
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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace BuildAutoIncrement {
/// <summary>
/// A set of file utilities.
/// </summary>
public struct FileUtil {
/// <summary>
/// Compares two rooted paths for equality. Any of the paths provided
/// may end with path separator - it will be ignored.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="absolutePath1">
/// First path.
/// </param>
/// <param name="absolutePath2">
/// Second path.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// <c>true</c> if both paths correspond to the same folder.
/// </returns>
public static bool PathsAreEqual(string absolutePath1, string absolutePath2) {
Debug.Assert(absolutePath1 != null && Path.IsPathRooted(absolutePath1));
Debug.Assert(absolutePath2 != null && Path.IsPathRooted(absolutePath2));
// remove any trailing separators
char endingChar = absolutePath1[absolutePath1.Length - 1];
if (endingChar == Path.DirectorySeparatorChar || endingChar == Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar)
absolutePath1 = Path.GetDirectoryName(absolutePath1);
else
absolutePath1 = Path.GetFullPath(absolutePath1);
endingChar = absolutePath2[absolutePath2.Length - 1];
if (endingChar == Path.DirectorySeparatorChar || endingChar == Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar)
absolutePath2 = Path.GetDirectoryName(absolutePath2);
else
absolutePath2 = Path.GetFullPath(absolutePath2);
return string.Compare(absolutePath1, absolutePath2, true) == 0;
}
}
}
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