From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T07:27:02+09:00
Subject: Re: File.split on windows box appends a '.' to directory name

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Weirich [mailto:jim@weirichhouse.org] 
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:21 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: File.split on windows box appends a '.' to directory name
> 
> 
> I'm exploring file path manipulation and discovered that on a 
> windows box:
> 
>  >> File.split("C:a/b")
> => ["C:a.", "b"]
> 
> I would expect ["C:a", "b"], which is indeed what I get when 
> running on 
> Linux.
> 
> Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Works for me:

irb(main):001:0> File.split("C:a/b")
=> ["C:a", "b"]
irb(main):002:0> VERSION
=> "1.8.4"

What version of Ruby?

Dan