From: Matt Armstrong <matt+dated+1007582508.5924b7@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T05:02:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27119] Re: Looking for x-platform path builder

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> Is there a standardized way to build file pathnames
> that uses the dir seperator that is OS specific?
>
> path = "/somepath"
> Dir.open(path).each { |f|
>   p path_build(path, f) #=> yields /somepath/somefile on unix
>   p path_build(path, f) #=> yields /somepath\somefile on dos

See the File class, in particular File#join, File#split,
File#basename, File#dirname, and the File#SEPARATOR variable.

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matt