Hi Roger,

Well if there is some developer interest in it and it would consolidate and 
make code more robust in the JDK then it seems worth pursuing.

Thanks,

Brian

On Jul 19, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Roger Riggs <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

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