From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-01-28T00:30:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir[] and File.stat(str).directory? on Win98

Hi,

At Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:54:11 +0900,
Stephan K�mper <Stephan.Kaemper@t-online.de> wrote:
> Now that seems to be kind of inconststent to me. "File.stat" works 
> as I think it should. But "Dir[]" only works with unixish file names,
> not with the dosish backslashes...
> 
> Is this intended behaviour? Can I somehow set File::SEPARATOR to 
> something different from /? Would that help anyway?

Yes, intended.  You shouldn't set the constant and it even has
no meanings.  It's provided for scripts and never used
internally.

> As far as I see I could work around this by redefining Dir[] so that 
> it gsubs any \es into /es and then calls the original Dir[]...

In 1.7 of mingw32 and mswin32, Dir[] accepts backslashes.

> But how would I 'alias' a class method correctly?

if /mswin|mingw/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM and RUBY_VERSION < "1.7"
  class << Dir	# <===
    alias _search []
    def [](path)
      _search(path.gsub(/\\/, '/'))
    end
  end
end

-- 
Nobu Nakada