[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33862] Test of sysdep.cc fail on dev. source (MinGW)

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #33862 (project octave):

I think the issue may lie in liboctave/file-ops.cc in function
tilde_expand_word.  The excerpt below is at line 220.


  // A leading `~/' or a bare `~' is *always* translated to the value
  // of $HOME or the home directory of the current user, regardless of
  // any preexpansion hook.

  if (f_len == 1 || file_ops::is_dir_sep (filename[1]))
    return octave_env::get_home_directory () + filename.substr (1);


So it looks like "~/foobar" is immediately parsed as "~" and filename.substr
(1) is "/foobar".  Thus, no file separator is ever inserted.



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