From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T06:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

On 29/12/05, Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using ruby 1.8.2 on Windows XP, the path separator used for things like
> File.join is always / instead of \.  Is there a way to force ruby to use
> the correct path separator?

Unless you're interacting with external programs, you don't need it to.

When you do, a simple .gsub(%r{/}) { "\\" } will do.

-austin
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