Hi all,
 
ExtractFilePath and ExtractFileDir stops at last '/','\', so it treats the normal character \ as path delimiter under Unix.

Is there a RTL function that handles the \ as normal character?  
 
Mattias
 

You can change global AllowDirectorySeparators
(http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/allowdirectoryseparators.html ) to exclude '\' on non-Windows. I do this in my engine:

   {$ifndef MSWINDOWS}
   AllowDirectorySeparators -= ['\'];
   {$endif}

This way ExtractFilePath and friends behave correctly on non-Windows.

And I really, really wish this would be changed in FPC too... That is, AllowDirectorySeparators should be ['/'] on Unix, not ['/','\']. Backslash is a completely normal character in Unix filenames. The default value of AllowDirectorySeparators variable *should* be OS-dependent, just like PathDelim and others.

Michalis

+1

R.