Function normalizeArray

browser-version/out/nedb.js:211–235

(parts, allowAboveRoot)

// (so also no leading and trailing slashes - it does not distinguish
// relative and absolute paths)
function normalizeArray(parts, allowAboveRoot) {
  // if the path tries to go above the root, `up` ends up > 0
  var up = 0;
  for (var i = parts.length; i >= 0; i--) {
    var last = parts[i];
    if (last == '.') {
      parts.splice(i, 1);
    } else if (last === '..') {
      parts.splice(i, 1);
      up++;
    } else if (up) {
      parts.splice(i, 1);
      up--;
    }
  }

  // if the path is allowed to go above the root, restore leading ..s
  if (allowAboveRoot) {
    for (; up--; up) {
      parts.unshift('..');
    }
  }

  return parts;
}

// Regex to split a filename into [*, dir, basename, ext]
// posix version