Antwort: Re: SEPARATOR doesn't work

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Thanks…just learned another thing.
It works fine, however there seems to be a bug or anything like this. At
least in my (v1.6) version of Ruby File::SEPARATOR returns / on both, BSD
and Win32. Is this normal?
I intended to split a user given paht in its components. Thus needing it
(or not?).

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Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com wrote:

Hi,
I’m using ruby-win32 1.6 and I’m trying to get the Path-separator ( eg. /
or \ ) to wirte protable programs

However

File.SEPARATOR
SEPARATOR
$SEPARATOR
Dir.SEPARATOR

all return nil. What’s wrong

irb(main):001:0> File.SEPARATOR
NameError: undefined method `SEPARATOR’ for File:Class
from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> File::SEPARATOR
=> “/”

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Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OFD475C346.5D134A27-ONC1256DBA.003E7FD3@gdm.de…

Thanks…just learned another thing.
It works fine, however there seems to be a bug or anything like this. At
least in my (v1.6) version of Ruby File::SEPARATOR returns / on both,
BSD
and Win32. Is this normal?

If it is a cygwin built it’s not an error since cygwin uses unix file name
conventions. If it’s not cygwin, it’s likely to be a bug. But I can’t
really remember whether was a bug, because 1.6 is way old… You should
get yourself a new version.

I intended to split a user given paht in its components. Thus needing it
(or not?).

You should use:

dir, name = File.split( path )

Cheers

robert
3

Thanks…just learned another thing.
It works fine, however there seems to be a bug or anything like this. At
least in my (v1.6) version of Ruby File::SEPARATOR returns / on both, BSD
and Win32. Is this normal?

File::ALT_SEPARATOR is non-nil on win32. Actually, you can use / or
as the file separator on win32. Try cd /some/win32/path.

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Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com (Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com) wrote:

I intended to split a user given paht in its components. Thus needing it
(or not?).

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Hi,

in ruby, File::SEPARATOR is always “/” (at least on win32, cygwin and
linux build) and path are always composed of “/” and not "" (even on
the win32 build, paths seems to be “translated” by ruby on the fly)…

Cheers,
Pierre.

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003, Robert Klemme wrote:

Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OFD475C346.5D134A27-ONC1256DBA.003E7FD3@gdm.de…

Thanks…just learned another thing.
It works fine, however there seems to be a bug or anything like this. At
least in my (v1.6) version of Ruby File::SEPARATOR returns / on both,
BSD
and Win32. Is this normal?

If it is a cygwin built it’s not an error since cygwin uses unix file name
conventions. If it’s not cygwin, it’s likely to be a bug. But I can’t
really remember whether was a bug, because 1.6 is way old… You should
get yourself a new version.

I intended to split a user given paht in its components. Thus needing it
(or not?).

You should use:

dir, name = File.split( path )

Cheers

robert

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