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Re: $PathnameSeparator and DirectoryName

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg71138] Re: $PathnameSeparator and DirectoryName
• From: "David Reiss" <dbreiss at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:37:55 -0500 (EST)
• References: <eisenq$m68$1@smc.vnet.net>

Presumably because DirectoryName is still looking for the Windows path
structure.  I assume that DirectoryName is not directly accessing the
parameter  $PathnameSeparator, but rather is handining things
internally.  Hence it sees your Unix paths as simple strings and
returns the root directory.

best,

David


Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Why is it that reading in a list of Unix file path strings, Blocking
> $PathnameSeparator = "/" and (underneath the Block) using
> DirectoryName on the paths doesn't work on Windows' Mathematica? It
> just returns empty strings.
> 
> -- 
> http://chris.chiasson.name/