On 15 Jul 2005, at 20:09, Doug Kearns wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:11:34AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i found that starting a ruby script on window may result in a
>> wrong ARGV. For example:
>>
>> ruby scan_paths.rb  "C:\"  "D:\"
>>
>> results in an ARGV array with just one element   'C:\" D:\"'
>> but it must result in two strings.
>>
>
> Assuming quoting in Windows works in some sane way; "C:\"  "D:\" is
> equivalent to "C:\"  D:\"" ie. one word

Agreed, I don't think this is ruby's fault:

$ ruby -ve 'p ARGV' "C:\" "D:\"
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-06-17) [powerpc-darwin8.1.0]
["C:\" D:\""]
$ cat x.sh
echo $1
$ sh x.sh "C:\" "D:\"
C:" D:"
$

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