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Empty strings are ignored from arguments
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Expand Up @@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ If `to` isn't already absolute `from` arguments are prepended in right to left
order, until an absolute path is found. If after using all `from` paths still
no absolute path is found, the current working directory is used as well. The
resulting path is normalized, and trailing slashes are removed unless the path
gets resolved to the root directory.
gets resolved to the root directory. Empty string `from` arguments are
ignored.

Another way to think of it is as a sequence of `cd` commands in a shell.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -316,9 +317,6 @@ path.resolve('wwwroot', 'static_files/png/', '../gif/image.gif')
// '/home/myself/node/wwwroot/static_files/gif/image.gif'
```

*Note:* If the arguments to `resolve` have zero-length strings then the current
working directory will be used instead of them.

## path.sep

The platform-specific file separator. `'\\'` or `'/'`.
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