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/