Hi,

I find the following inconsistent and have to constantly check for ending path delimiters because I am never sure which functions include them and which doesn't.

Both the following functions returns a path, yet one includes a trailing path delimiter and the other doesn't! Why can't all functions that return a path include or exclude the trailing path delimiter. A mix of the two is just plain annoying!

GetAppConfigDir(False)
returns: /home/graemeg/.config

ExtractFilePath('/home/graemeg/.config/testing.xml') returns: /home/graemeg/.config/

Why does one have a trailing '/' and the other not? They are both paths!

Regards,
- Graeme -

Oh, and here is another one!

ExtractFileDir which to me does the exact same thing as ExtractFilePath, but this one has NO ending directory separator.

Graeme.

Umm... This makes me think. Is there maybe some undocumented (I haven't found anything yet) feature that says all functions that end in *Dir will return a directory _without_ a ending directory separator. And all functions that end in *Path will return a directory _with_ a directory separator. :)

Either way I still think - Always include the separator or never include the separator!

Graeme.

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

>> >> Why does one have a trailing '/' and the other not? They are both paths! >>

I see it in this way:

dir = the name of a specific directory;
path = the (partial) indication of the road to reach a specific place;

In this way I always know what kind of result I'm working with.

I think this comes from some non documented guideline of Delphi...

tiziano

This is still a bit confusing I think.... :-)

Regards,
- Graeme -