From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-05-25T18:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting '\' to be used as the separator in Dir.getwd -- how to?


"Richard" <RLMuller@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm running Ruby 1.6.8 over Win2000SP3.  Dir.getwd returns the current
> directory with forward slash as the separator.  I tried setting
> SEPARATOR = "\\" at the beginning of the script, to no avail.  Is
> there a way to get the correct form returned ...


Looking at the code, the file separator is wired as '/'.  Ruby takes
this format as input but if you need Win format you'll ...


> ... have to do pattern substitution.


Erm, probably, yes.

Dir.getwd.gsub!(File::SEPARATOR, File::ALT_SEPARATOR)

  # ->  E:\Gallery\JoGuest   (YMMV;)


daz