From: GianFranco Bozzetti <gf.bozzetti@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T16:20:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Separator in $PATH

string#split accept a regular expression

path_list = ENV['PATH'].split(/[:;]/) # work s on Linus and Windows

HTH gfb

"Stefano Mioli" <stefano.mioli@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:AANLkTikcTzTvNbejW6JEL9_tmBAvKBqer7_W1X6p20M_@mail.gmail.com...
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2:02 pm, Stefano Mioli <stefano.mi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The question is: is there some class in the Ruby library that knows
>> about this difference?
>
> File::PATH_SEPARATOR
>
>> I'm asking this question because I need to figure out if a given
>> executable is in the path and, if it does, retrieve its full path.
>
> require 'ptools'
>
> File.which('ls') # => '/bin/ls'
>
> Works on Windows, too, with or without an extension:
>
> File.which('notepad') # Works
> File.which('notepad.exe') # Also works

Many thanks, Dan.
I didn't know about ptools, and somehow I just saw File::SEPARATOR,
but not File::PATH_SEPARATOR.

-- 
Stefano