Windows Path
April 26th, 2007 by
peasleer
The Windows PATH environment variable, as most of you probably know, is delimited with colons. We ran into a problem at work where some systems weren’t running properly because it couldn’t find some libraries. The problem? A space was inserted after the colon and before the next path element. Seeing as there is –never– a space as the beginning of a path in Windows, why isn’t it just parsed out? It would increase readability and eliminate problems like this.
Grumble.
