Given an absolute path for a file (Unix-style), simplify it.
For example,
path = "/home/"
, => "/home"
path = "/a/./b/../../c/"
, => "/c"
So why we need to change the format of the String address. cause the format of the string address given is not a standard
format, so we need to turn it into a standard format.
The address string is split by some string, then we need to use this string array to construct the result..
There are different condition
1 if the string array is '.' or '' that means that the the length of the string is 0, then just
continue,
2 if the string splited is '..', then if the stack is not empty, then just pop the stack.
3 if the string is not the case above, then just push the string into the stack.
4 and then pop the string in the stack in the order and construct the final result.
the only way I know is to append the poped string to the end of the result string.w
public class Solution {
public String simplifyPath(String path) {
if(path == null || path.length() == 0)
return path;
Stack<String>stack = new Stack<String>();
String[] temRes = path.split("/");
for(int i = 0; i < temRes.length; i++){
if(temRes[i].equals(".") || temRes[i].length() == 0)
continue;
else if(temRes[i].equals("..")){
if(!stack.isEmpty()){
stack.pop();
}
}
else{
stack.push(temRes[i]);
}
}
//I use two stack to reverse the make the order of the string the same with the original string
Stack<String> reverse = new Stack<String>();
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
while(!stack.isEmpty()){
reverse.push(stack.pop());
}
while(!reverse.isEmpty()){
result.append("/" + reverse.pop());
}
if(result.length() == 0)
result.append("/");
return result.toString();
}
}