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Re: [DotGNU]Path.[Alt]DirectorySeparatorChar
From: |
Rhys Weatherley |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Path.[Alt]DirectorySeparatorChar |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Dec 2002 17:07:26 +1000 |
"Dawkins, David" wrote:
> - ECMA contains a mistake (why have the alternate character the same as
> the first?)
>
> - MSDN makes sense (although, I never encountered a Unix system that
> accepted '\' as a directory separator character, although I'm going
> to have to go try this now)
Unix doesn't accept '\' as a separator. But we can make all this
academic by introducing a "normalize path" call to each of the
filesystem-related internalcalls which will turn both '/' and '\'
into the path separator of the underlying system. Then it won't
matter what the separators are set to at the C# level.
Cheers,
Rhys.