How do I find the path delimiter character in .NET?

Question

Is there some built-in constant for the path delimiter (i.e. \ vs /)

Answer 1

System.IO.Path has these sort of information.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.directoryseparatorchar.aspx

Answer 2

System.IO.Path has two readonly fields for this purpose:

• Path.DirectorySeparatorChar: contains '\' on Windows, '/' on UNIX
• Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar: contains '/' on Windows, '\' on UNIX

Then there are two additional fields for the volume separator and path separator:

• Path.VolumeSeparatorChar: the character used to separate the volume name/drive letter from the rest of tha path (':' on windows, '/' on UNIX)
• Path.PathSeparator: the character used to separate multiple paths (';')