Hi Brian,
No particular novel use cases.
There are quite a few places in OpenJDK tools, etc that naively use
string.split(pathSeparator) that
will misbehave on Windows in the edge cases and may not be paying
attention to the empty path component case.
It would provide a measure of regularity and predictability to path parsing.
There was a query on stack Overflow about such an API.
Thanks, Roger
On 7/19/2018 4:20 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
Hi Roger,
I was just wondering whether you have some specific use cases in mind.
Thanks,
Brian
On Jul 19, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Roger Riggs <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Parsing of paths such as the values of properties java.class.path and
java.library.path
do not have direct support in the Java API.
There are several implementations within OpenJDK and a few variations
exist with regard to
treatment of empty path elements and on Windows support for quoting.
Would it be useful to have an API such as the following:
[…]
Suggestions welcome, Roger
