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Re: Portable dir-path separator?
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Thorsten Jolitz |
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Re: Portable dir-path separator? |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:31:24 +0200 |
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:31:15 PM UTC+5:30, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>> Hi List,
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>> is it portable to split absolute file names in Emacs Lisp with "/" as
>> separator? I searched for a related variable that abstracts away the
>> slash vs. backslash issue, but did not find one (`path-separator' is ':'
>> under GNU/Linux and probably not what I'm looking for).
>>
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> Maybe you want things like file-name-directory from
> (info "(elisp)File Name Components")
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> ?
No, I rather want to do something like
,------------------------------------------------------
| (split-string (expand-file-name file-name) separator)
`------------------------------------------------------
I'm on GNU/Linux and would use '/' as separator, but what if this code
is used on Windows or so? I thought there must be some OS independent
variable for this in Emacs - but did not find it yet.
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cheers,
Thorsten