Solve LeetCode Problems and Get Offers From Your Dream Companies

Nil Madhab
LeetCode Simplified
3 min readJan 22, 2021

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Problem 71. Simplify Path

In this series, I am going to solve Leetcode medium problems live with my friend, which you can watch on our youtube channel, Today we will do Problem 71. Simplify Path.

A little bit about me, I have offers from Uber India and Amazon India in the past, and I am currently working for Booking.com in Amsterdam.

Youtube Discussion

Please comment here or on youtube, if you have any doubts

Problem statement:

Given an absolute path for a file (Unix-style), simplify it. Or in other words, convert it to the canonical path.

In a UNIX-style file system, a period '.' refers to the current directory. Furthermore, a double period '..' moves the directory up a level.

Note that the returned canonical path must always begin with a slash '/', and there must be only a single slash '/' between two directory names. The last directory name (if it exists) must not end…

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Nil Madhab
LeetCode Simplified

Developer @Booking.com | ex: Samsung, OYO | IIT Kharagpur | Entrepreneur, founder of simplecoding.dev | JOIN Medium, https://nilmadhab.medium.com/membership