Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Patrick LeBoutillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > From: Brian Ingerson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
> > One question though: In Inline::Java I look at the PATH and
> > CLASSPATH variables. The delimiter is ":" un Unix and ";" on
> > Windows.
>
> Environment variables. I believe both : and ; are illegal for use in
> filenames. I'm not sure what you need, but you should be able to split on
> either. @paths = split /(\:|\;)/, $ENV{'PATH'};
A UN*X filename may contains *any* characters except for '/' and
'\0'. Including colons. Regardless, it's probably not such a hot
idea to create a directory named "bin:".
An oddity of csh is that it will let you put such "colonized"
directories in your path, by saying "set path=($path bin:)".
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