OpenEuphoria

pathinfo() function at file.e

• Posted by Marco Achury <achury at ?a?tv.net> Apr 29, 2008
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pathinfo is simple and nice function.

In file names as: 
FileZilla_3.0.8.1_win32-setup.exe 
correctly set extension as exe

but filenames as:
new.tar.gz
set extension as gz, wich is only 
patially truth.

DOS had a real 3 bytes field for extension 
in the directory table, but I think that
in modern filesystems the extension concept
has not sense.  Even unix system prefer to
have not any extension and prefer magic 
numbers for binary and #! for scripts.

So, finally, I don't find real utility to 
the extension field.  I prefer that pathinfo 
must to return:
On dos and windows 3 fields: drive, path, filename
On Linux/BDS 2 fields: path, filename

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Marco A. Achury
Caracas, Venezuela