File separators &c

[Peter Hancock]

>>>>> "George" == George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    > Is there a standard way of splitting a file name up,
    > EG (on Unix) "a/b/c" goes to ["a","b","c"]?  

IIRC, filename syntax on vms is 

    logicalname:[dir0..dirk]name.ext;version  (k < 7)

Nothing is standard which has anything to do with files. 

Peter