From 17821603b49b77668c67c0362be28c9dbea829e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Wilson E. Alvarez" <wilson.e.alvarez1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:39:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Expose String.simplify_path

---
 core/variant/variant_call.cpp | 1 +
 doc/classes/String.xml        | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/variant/variant_call.cpp b/core/variant/variant_call.cpp
index c3481d48960..a4817eb7d27 100644
--- a/core/variant/variant_call.cpp
+++ b/core/variant/variant_call.cpp
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void _register_variant_builtin_methods() {
 
 	bind_method(String, is_absolute_path, sarray(), varray());
 	bind_method(String, is_rel_path, sarray(), varray());
+	bind_method(String, simplify_path, sarray(), varray());
 	bind_method(String, get_base_dir, sarray(), varray());
 	bind_method(String, get_file, sarray(), varray());
 	bind_method(String, xml_escape, sarray("escape_quotes"), varray(false));
diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml
index 97efc24bd10..a4646138a7d 100644
--- a/doc/classes/String.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/String.xml
@@ -646,6 +646,12 @@
 				Returns the similarity index of the text compared to this string. 1 means totally similar and 0 means totally dissimilar.
 			</description>
 		</method>
+		<method name="simplify_path" qualifiers="const">
+			<return type="String" />
+			<description>
+				Returns a simplified canonical path.
+			</description>
+		</method>
 		<method name="split" qualifiers="const">
 			<return type="PackedStringArray" />
 			<argument index="0" name="delimiter" type="String" />