UBlueprintPathsLibrary::RemoveDuplicateSlashes

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.20

#include "Kismet/BlueprintPathsLibrary.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticUFUNCTIONBlueprintPure

Description

Collapses any run of consecutive slashes in a path down to a single slash.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Assumes all slashes have already been converted to '/' — run NormalizeFilename first if the path may still contain backslashes.
• The result is returned via the OutPath output parameter, not the return value.

Signature

static void RemoveDuplicateSlashes(const FString& InPath, FString& OutPath)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
InPath	const FString&	A path that may contain duplicate consecutive slashes, e.g. "BaseDirectory/SomeDirectory//SomeOtherDirectory////Filename.ext".	—
OutPath	FString&	Receives the path with duplicate slashes collapsed to single slashes.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Collapse duplicate slashes C++

FString Cleaned;
UBlueprintPathsLibrary::RemoveDuplicateSlashes(TEXT("BaseDirectory/SomeDirectory//SomeOtherDirectory////Filename.ext"), Cleaned);
// Cleaned == TEXT("BaseDirectory/SomeDirectory/SomeOtherDirectory/Filename.ext")

Version History

Introduced in: 4.20

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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