Sorry, but should have been split on : as stated by drieux.

Wags ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO 
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 15:13
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Subject: RE: Parsing a path environment...


        split on the ; and you now have array with all the elements of your
environment.

Wags ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: James Kelty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 14:58
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Subject: Parsing a path environment...


Hello.

I am writing a quick script in order to parse a users $PATH variable, but I
hit upon a quandry.

The PATH environment is one long string with element separated by a ":", no
mystery there, but
how would I look at each individual element? Normally I would use split on a
line by line basis, but
this isn't line by line.

Any advice?

Thanks so much!


-James


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