Path Separator

Platform-specific path segment separator.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/constants-path-sep

Usage

var PATH_SEP = require( '@stdlib/constants-path-sep' );

PATH_SEP

Platform-specific path segment separator.

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

var bool;
if ( IS_WINDOWS ) {
    bool = ( PATH_SEP === '\\' );
    // returns true
} else {
    bool = ( PATH_SEP === '/' );
    // returns true
}

Examples

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

var path;
if ( IS_WINDOWS ) {
    path = 'foo\\bar\\baz';
} else {
    path = 'foo/bar/baz';
}
var parts = path.split( PATH_SEP );
console.log( parts );
// => ['foo','bar','baz']

See Also

• @stdlib/constants-path/sep-posix: POSIX path segment separator.
• @stdlib/constants-path/sep-win32: Windows path segment separator.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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