30-seconds-of-code/snippets/untildify.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
untildify	node,string,beginner	2018-01-01T17:43:18+02:00	2020-10-22T20:24:44+03:00

Converts a tilde path to an absolute path.

• Use String.prototype.replace() with a regular expression and os.homedir() to replace the ~ in the start of the path with the home directory.

const untildify = str =>
  str.replace(/^~($|\/|\\)/, `${require('os').homedir()}$1`);

untildify('~/node'); // '/Users/aUser/node'