When creating a Path from a string containing the Windows extended-length prefix \\?\, it should be automatically stripped during normalization.
Example
$path = Path::create('\\?\D:\git\project\src\File.php');
echo (string) $path;
// Expected: 'D:/git/project/src/File.php'Why this happens
This prefix is returned by external tools (Rust, Go, .NET) that use Windows API for path canonicalization. It allows paths longer than 260 chars but is rarely needed in PHP.
When creating a Path from a string containing the Windows extended-length prefix
\\?\, it should be automatically stripped during normalization.Example
Why this happens
This prefix is returned by external tools (Rust, Go, .NET) that use Windows API for path canonicalization. It allows paths longer than 260 chars but is rarely needed in PHP.