Clean way to convert vi.lib (and similar) paths to abolute paths.

[avogadro5]

I'm working on some dependency scraping and I have some paths that look like "<vilib>:\Palette API\Read Palette.vi", "<userlib>:\_OpenG.lib\appcontrol\appcontrol.llb\Current VIs Parents Ref__ogtk.vi", "<extravilib>:\ChannelInstances\Messenger-c(bool,str)\Write.vi" and so on. Is there a way to resolve all of these to absolute paths without scanning for the "<.+>:" token and mapping it to the appropriate file path constant?

[Martin_Henz · Accepted solution]

There is one VI available which seems to do the job:

\resource\Framework\Providers\MessageRescripter\Support\Resolve Symbolic Path.vi

Symbolic Path - LabVIEW Wiki

(this is a obsolete method)

or use

this method does not resolve all symbolic paths like "<lvproj>"

[paul_a_cardinale · Accepted solution]

Try this.