File::Separator on win32

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Use File::ALT_SEPARATOR instead.

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Siebert [mailto:info@siebert-wd.de]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:26 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: File::Separator on win32

Hello Folks,

on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a
\. this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i
need. is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?

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is ALT_SEPARATOR / on *nixes? according to the docs, its \, too. i need a
portable way without the need to rewrite everything...

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2006/7/24, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com>:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Siebert [mailto:info@siebert-wd.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: File::Separator on win32
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a
> \. this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i
> need. is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?

Use File::ALT_SEPARATOR instead.

Regards,

Dan

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Michael Siebert wrote:

is ALT_SEPARATOR / on *nixes? according to the docs, its \, too. i need a
portable way without the need to rewrite everything...

Which docs? Anyway, it's nil on *nix platforms. I'm not sure about VMS, though.

There's always RUBY_PLATFORM.match('mswin') :slight_smile:

Regards,

Dan

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2006/7/24, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com>:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Siebert [mailto:info@siebert-wd.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: File::Separator on win32
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a
> \. this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i
> need. is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?

Use File::ALT_SEPARATOR instead.

Regards,

Dan

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Daniel Berger wrote:

Michael Siebert wrote:

is ALT_SEPARATOR / on *nixes? according to the docs, its \, too. i need a
portable way without the need to rewrite everything...

Which docs? Anyway, it's nil on *nix platforms. I'm not sure about
VMS, though.

There's always RUBY_PLATFORM.match('mswin') :slight_smile:

Regards,

Dan

`md #{File.join("c:","foo")}` fails as well. STDERR contains 'The
syntax of the command is incorrect'.

In other languages, like Java, the path separator constant/method is
used to abstract the knowledge of which operating system is in play.
Can it not be so in Ruby?

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