[Bioperl-l] Why is '+' a delimiter in $OBDA_SEARCH_PATH?

Ewan Birney birney at ebi.ac.uk
Thu May 22 16:22:53 EDT 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Brian Osborne wrote:

> Bioperl-l,
> The character '+' is being used a delimiter in this variable instead of the
> standard Unix ';'. If I'm not mistaken one can use '+' in a directory or
> file name, whereas ';' seems not to be allowed. In fact, isn't "lost+found"
> a system directory in some Unixes? Anyway, I will change this unless someone
> can convince me not to.
> Brian O.

it is due to teh URL standard, which has '+' as a delimiter. 


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