From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T01:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: File::Separator on win32

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') :)

Regards,

Dan

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> 2006/7/24, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com>:
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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?
>>
>> Use File::ALT_SEPARATOR instead.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
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