split on the ; and you now have array with all the elements of your environment.
Wags ;) -----Original Message----- From: James Kelty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 14:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Parsing a path environment... Hello. I am writing a quick script in order to parse a users $PATH variable, but I hit upon a quandry. The PATH environment is one long string with element separated by a ":", no mystery there, but how would I look at each individual element? Normally I would use split on a line by line basis, but this isn't line by line. Any advice? Thanks so much! -James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]