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Append the specified `filename` to the end of the specified `path` if `filename` represents a relative path. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise. Note that any filesystem separator characters at the end of `filename` or `path` will be discarded. See  for the definition of separator.

== Synopses

Declared in `<bdls_pathutil.h>`

Append the specified `filename` to the end of the specified `path` if `filename` represents a relative path. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise. Note that any filesystem separator characters at the end of `filename` or `path` will be discarded. See  for the definition of separator.


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