From: yvon.thoravalNO-SPAM@... (Yvon Thoraval)
Date: 2004-03-31T20:14:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] prob with join "/"

Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:

> The error is easily explained by the behavior of split:
> 
> irb(main):010:0> ar = "/foo/bar".split '/'
> => ["", "foo", "bar"]
> irb(main):011:0> ar.join '/'
> => "/foo/bar"
> 
> Note the empty element at the beginning. compact() doesn't change that
> since it removes only nils:
> 
> irb(main):013:0> ar = "/foo/bar".split( '/' ).compact
> => ["", "foo", "bar"]
> irb(main):014:0> ar.join '/'
> => "/foo/bar"
> 
> However, File.split and File.join are used much easier and I guess they
> are more appropriate in your case.

ok, tanxs, however my pathes are comin' from java-side (i'm using
JRuby), the reason i didn't make use of File.[split|join], i've changed
#compact to #delete("") and works fine
-- 
yt