From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T17:35:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Separator in $PATH

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:20 AM, GianFranco Bozzetti
<gf.bozzetti@alice.it> wrote:
> string#split accept a regular expression
>
> path_list = ENV['PATH'].split(/[:;]/) # work s on Linus and Windows
>
> HTH gfb

Well, it works.  But it isn't helpful.

irb(main):002:0> 'C:\\foo;W::\\bar'.split(/[:;]/)
=> ["C", "\\foo", "W", "", "\\bar"]

Cheers

robert

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