From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-05-26T11:57:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting '\' to be used as the separator in Dir.getwd -- how to?


"Mark Wilson" <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 05:56 PM, Richard wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> >  I don't see any cwd method defined in the Shell class, nor in its
> > required modules:
> >    shell/error
> >    shell/command-processor
> >    shell/process-controller
> > and it didn't seem I'd find it in any of *their* required modules.  (I
> > only checked the ftool.rb module)
> >
> > So how do the separators get transformed?  It looks like magic :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard
>
<snip>

  attr :cwd

defines the method to read @cwd.

However, you would be using Shell to do a Dir#getwd instead of
doing it directly.  It returns forward-slash separators (for me).

require 'shell'
puts Shell.new.pwd  # -> D:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/shell


<snip>
> The default record separator is set to '/' unless replaced [...]

The default record separator in Shell is set to global variable $/
(which is usually newline).  Nothing to do with the directory
component separator.  Confusing, though.


daz