Re: File separators c

[Ketil Malde]

Peter Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 IIRC, filename syntax on vms is 
 logicalname:[dir0..dirk]name.ext;version  (k  7)
 Nothing is standard which has anything to do with files. 

Common Lisp appears to handle this, and most other cases.  Whether the 
CL way is the right solution, is a different question.

-kzm
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Re: File separators c

[George Russell]

Peter Hancock wrote:
 
  "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)
This would presumably split as ["logicalname","dir0",...,"dirk","name.ext"]
So for VAX/VMS you can't use file separators, but at least you can map to
a sequence of strings in a reasonably obvious way.  I'm quite happy for
versions to be ignored; it would probably be best to handle these by 
a special library for VAX/VMS.  MVS/MVT partitioned datasets are another
storY.  Perhaps there you could prefix the final component with a ":" if
a member name is meant.