From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T21:21:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?

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Hi,

On Feb 20, 2008 10:54 PM, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:

> So you ran ruby on linux (or OSX) and gave it a fully qualified windows
> filename, what were you expecting?
>
> Some magical utility that can take a string and work out what operating
> system the filename comes from and then parse that?
>
> Patches welcome.


Taking a quick look at file.c in Ruby's source code, it seems we'd just have
to split the function in two (rather than the define mess we have now), and
then add a short bit to look for the presence of a start like /[a-zA-Z]:\\/,
then use the DOS-like one, otherwise try Unix-like ...

Arlen

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