From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-10-09T22:52:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: SEPARATOR doesn't work


<Robert.Koepferl@de.gi-de.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Thanks....just learned another thing.
> It works fine, however there seems to be a bug or anything like this. At
> least in my (v1.6) version of Ruby File::SEPARATOR returns / on both,
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If it is a cygwin built it's not an error since cygwin uses unix file name
conventions.  If it's not cygwin, it's likely to be a bug.  But I can't
really remember whether was a bug, because 1.6 is way old...  You should
get yourself a new version.

> I intended to split a user given paht in its components. Thus needing it
> (or not?).

You should use:

dir, name = File.split( path )

Cheers

    robert