Qn. I have a file which has entries of file paths like below 
platform/process/src/../../data/test.dat

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So, actual path name is platform/data/test.dat. I tried using canonpath() , rel2abs(). But it does not work.

Is there any other funtion? which travels upwards and does the trick?

Thanks ppti

Here is my code. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Spec;
my $path = "/platform/process/src/../../common/src/line.c";
print $path,"\n";
$new_path = File::Spec->canonpath($path);
print $new_path, "\n";
$c_path = File::Spec->rel2abs($path,"/platform");
print $c_path, "\n";

output:
/platform/process/src/../../common/src/line.c
/platform/process/src/../../common/src/line.c
/platform/process/src/../../common/src/line.c

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I want /platform/common/src/line.c

Thanks ppti

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