How do I test whether a path is absolute in Elisp?

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  •  01-07-2022
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Question

I'm doing some path manipulation in Emacs Lisp, and I want to know how to test whether a string represents an absolute path. What is the canonical way to do this? Note that I don't want to check whether the path actually exists on the file system, I just want to check if a string represents an absolute path or not.

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Solution

I just found the answer: file-name-absolute-p.

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