IIUC, the only reliable way to do this is to open the two files. Robby
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@cs.wpi.edu> wrote: >>> I'm trying to compare two paths for equality; I misread >>> normalize-path and didn't realize that it does not do case folding, >>> so that on Windows, >>> >>> (equal? (build-path "C:\\") >>> (build-path "c:\\")) >>> >>> returns false. What's the right way to compare paths for equality? >> >> IIRC, there was no right way -- I think that on windows you can have >> some drives be case-sensitive and some are not. > > > Yikes. Ok, is there a way to tell if a filesystem root is > case-sensitive or not? > > > >>> As a related question, what's the right way to see if one directory >>> is a subdirectory of another? >> >> Explode the two and check if one is a prefix of the other? > > Thank you; that appears to work for me. > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
