Re: g_strsplit variant which filters empty strings from the result

[Alexander Semenov <bohtvaroh gmail com>]

Hi again. :)

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 15:13 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> Do you have a case where it would actually make sense to use such
> as function?  The file name case is an awful one:
> 
> 1. It's unix-specific.  On win32 you can see /foo/bar\baz\bof

What do you mean unix special? There is no difference which separator to
use. On windows I'd like to remove unneeded empty strings too.

> 2. It fails to distinguish "//foo" and "/foo" which, even on unix, are two
>     different file names.

Hmm, I'v just simply made 'cd' to '//home' (is this bash specific?).

> It seems to me that such a function is a tad special for a general library
> like glib.
> 
> Morten