string path = environment["PATH"];  // get the value of the env variable PATH.

writeln("Path is ", path);
writeln();

auto paths = std.algorithm.splitter(path, ";");
writeln("Paths are ", paths);


Path is E:\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32...

Paths are ["E:\\dmd2\\windows\\bin", "C:\\Windows\\system32", "C:\\Windows", "C:\\Win...


The function is perfect except it converts \ to \\.

I presume this is because D uses the \ character as an escape character?

Thanks in advance.

On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 02:41:06 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
> The function is perfect except it converts \ to \\.

The function isn't doing that conversion, that's just because when you do writeln() on a range or array, it prints it out in a format that can be read back. That's also why it put the [] and quotes around the entries - they weren't literally in the result string, it was just a printing convention.