In Objective-C, how do I go about converting tilde-based pathnames to full pathnames? That is, I'd like to convert from ~/sandbox
to /Users/TheBobs/sandbox
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Use NSString's stringByExpandingTildeInPath:
method.
There are also several other methods that make it easy to work with paths.
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