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

[Brian Osborne]

Ewan,

What do you recommend then? I'm not used to seeing "+" in my paths, though
it's a standard in URLs.

Brian O.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ewan Birney [mailto:birney at ebi.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:23 AM
To: Brian Osborne
Cc: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Why is '+' a delimiter in $OBDA_SEARCH_PATH?

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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