From: Michael Uplawski Date: 2012-12-17T05:11:38+09:00 Subject: Re: splitting PATH-values fails on Windows Thank you Bartosz. This is a big relief. And you are right. The nil-values are handled by a call to compact!() in the original program, where I do not need to extract actual path-names. I will just further elaborate the error-handling and just exclude the call to the external application altogether in case that nothing works as expected. Cheerio. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.