[Mono-dev] R: System.IO.Path: inconsistent paths from Windows clients

[Robert Jordan]

subscription.sapi wrote:
> We check this functionality with mono 1.1.15 on RedHat Enterprise AS4. If you used "D:/R&D/doc/jd/StandardJD.doc" (note the forward slash), System.IO.Path works well, but if you try "D:\R&D\doc\jd\StandardJD.doc",
> Path.GetFileName, returns al path including drive and folders.

This is by design. The directory separator under Linux is "/".
Compatible applications use Path.DirectorySeparatorChar or Path.Combine
instead of a hard coded separator.

Robert

> For MS.NET we means IIS + .NET Framework. We are on the way to port a big
> Web application from [Microsoft Windows + IIS + .NET] to [Linux + Apache + Mono].

> 
> If you know of different behaviour for recent builds of the mono library, please tell me the date of the build.
> Thank you.
> 
> Roberto Cazzato
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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Kornél Pál [mailto:kornelpal at gmail.com] 
> Inviato: lunedì 26 giugno 2006 17.31
> A: subscription.sapi; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Oggetto: Re: [Mono-dev] System.IO.Path: inconsistent paths from Windows clients
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried this with trunk from SVN and got the same result on MS.NET and Mono. 
> Mono 1.1.15 should be OK as well.
> 
> I think you are using a very old version.
> 
> Kornél
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "subscription.sapi" <subscription.sapi at apsystems.it>
> To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 5:16 PM
> Subject: [Mono-dev] System.IO.Path: inconsistent paths from Windows clients
> 
> 
> I've different behavior in ms.net framework and mono framework when I
> use methods in "System.IO.Path" class.
> 
> Test Case Description:
> 
> Microsoft .net framework:
> Input path: D:\R&D\doc\jd\StandardJD.doc
> Output path:
> Path.GetFileName                               StandardJD.doc
> Path.GetDirectoryName                       D:\R&D\doc\jd
> Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension      StandardJD
> Path.GetPathRoot                              D:\
> 
> MONO:
> Input path: D:\R&D\doc\jd\StandardJD.doc
> Output path:
> Path.GetFileName
> D:\R&D\doc\jd\StandardJD.doc
> Path.GetDirectoryName
> Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension      D:\R&D\doc\jd\StandardJD
> Path.GetPathRoot
> 
> Thank you.