Path Delimiter

Platform-specific path delimiter.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/constants-path-delimiter

Usage

var PATH_DELIMITER = require( '@stdlib/constants-path-delimiter' );

PATH_DELIMITER

Platform-specific path delimiter.

var IS_WINDOWS = require( '@stdlib/assert-is-windows' );

var bool;
if ( IS_WINDOWS ) {
    bool = ( PATH_DELIMITER === ';' );
    // returns true
} else {
    bool = ( PATH_DELIMITER === ':' );
    // returns true
}

Examples

var IS_WINDOWS = require( '@stdlib/assert-is-windows' );
var PATH_DELIMITER = require( '@stdlib/constants-path-delimiter' );

var PATH;
if ( IS_WINDOWS ) {
    PATH = 'C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Program Files\\node\\';
} else {
    PATH = '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin';
}
var paths = PATH.split( PATH_DELIMITER );
console.log( paths );
// => [...]

See Also

• @stdlib/constants-path/delimiter-posix: POSIX path delimiter.
• @stdlib/constants-path/delimiter-win32: Windows path delimiter.

Notice

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