Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Determining a full path to the currentfolder

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 0:26 -0400 1999.09.13, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:17:16PM -0500, Walter Torres wrote:
>> Sure, that works, but so does this...
>>
>> # Remove the file name from the complete path
>> # Win32, MacOS & UNIX compliant
>> ( $scriptPath = $0 ) =~ s{[^\\\/:]*$}{};
>>
>> Just my 2 cents
>>
>
>That's not compliant on any of those systems.
>
>\ and / are legal in filenames on the Mac, and : is legal in filenames on
>Windows and Unix.

In addition, there are other path separators.  Some systems use . as a
separator.  Just easier to use the standard library, then you don't need to
do the thinking, because I don't know who -- if anyone -- could on the spot
write a regex or function to account for all possibilities.

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