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

[Lincoln Stein]

We chose + because it was the least problematic choice among the Windows, 
Macintosh and Unix platforms.  We couldn't use ":" because it is required for 
Mac, and ";" was out for some other reason that I can't recall -- maybe 
Windows needs it for filename mangling?

Lincoln

On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:33 am, Brian Osborne wrote:
> 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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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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