path.Clean.md (718B)
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2 title: path.Clean
3 description: Replaces path separators with slashes (`/`) and removes extraneous separators.
4 date: 2021-10-08
5 # publishdate: 2018-11-28
6 # lastmod: 2018-11-28
7 categories: [functions]
8 menu:
9 docs:
10 parent: "functions"
11 keywords: [path, clean]
12 signature: ["path.Clean PATH"]
13 relatedfuncs: [path.Base, path.BaseName, path.Dir, path.Ext, path.Join, path.Split]
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16 `path.Clean` replaces path separators with slashes (`/`) and removes extraneous separators, including trailing separators.
17
18 ```
19 {{ path.Clean "foo//bar" }} → "foo/bar"
20 {{ path.Clean "/foo/bar/" }} → "/foo/bar"
21 ```
22
23 On a Windows system, if `.File.Path` is `foo\bar.md`, then:
24
25 ```
26 {{ path.Clean .File.Path }} → "foo/bar.md"
27 ```