Why is there a PATH_SEPARATOR constant?

Question

Isn\'t this / ?

Why is there a constant for it? It\'s not like it can change, right?

Answer 1

As your original question states: "Why is there a PATH_SEPARATOR constant?", windows uses a semi-colon ;, while other systems use a colon :

However I think you've mistaken PATH_SEPARATOR with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR

PATH_SEPARATOR delimits multiple paths in the same string. For example when used in windows environment variables.

c:\path\to\a;c:\path\to\b

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR separates the directories within the path: In Windows

\

In other systems

/

As mentioned by others, windows also accepts /