From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T00:11:18+09:00
Subject: Re: File::SEPARATOR

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:35:01 +0900,
>Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
>  
>
>>	I would like to emphasize again that in windows 2000 using
>>	ruby 1.67-4
>>and 1.67-7 downloaded from http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/, I
>>get "/" as a file separator. I already mentionned this in
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ruby-talk&m=103884227229307&w=2, but
>>there was no reaction.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes.  In ruby, "/" is used as a file separator for portability
>reason, and File::ALT_SEPARATOR is set on some platforms.
>  
>
thank you, now I'm reassured :O)
the doc in the pickaxe book is:
|SEPARATOR| Character that separates directory components in a filename 
(such as ``\'' or ``/'').

I gather that this doc is wrong? File::SEPARATOR would always be "/", in 
all platforms? (in which case it's not really useful).

yes, and Dir.chdir("a/b") does work under windows, so it's good, and i'm 
wondering even more when should I use File::SEPARATOR?

much reassured,

emmanuel

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