Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Georg> What is difficult: Setting the environment variable, or > Georg> determine its value? I guess the latter should be doable > Georg> without too much pain with the existing path conversion > Georg> routines? > > On unix, this is a ":" delimited list of directories. On windows, > depending on whether the program uses win32 paths or unix path, it > can be a ";" delimited list of directories.
Is semi-colon an allowable character in a unix path? Similarly, is colon an allowable character in the win32 path? I think that the answer to these questions is "no" and "no", which means that we could use boost::regex to split the list, using "[:;]" as the delimiter. -- Angus
