From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-04-29T01:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: File#split bug?

It seems like '~' here is not treated as a special symbol. To have it
treated like that try

File.split(File.expand_path("~jfn"))

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: File#split bug?


> Is this a bug in File#split?
>
> irb(main):013:0> File.split("/home/jfn")
> => ["/home", "jfn"]
> irb(main):014:0> File.split("~jfn")
> => [".", "~jfn"]
> irb(main):015:0> File.join(File.split("~jfn"))
> => "./~jfn"
>
>
> Notice that /home/jfn != ./~jfn
>
>
> -- 
> Jim Freeze
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