IMHO, the OP was with reference to multiple '/' in a pathname and the '/' 
would occur within a string ie identified as"<pathname>". anything that 
appears within the 2 "" can be parsed seperately as opposed to a generic 
';' which can create more problems,.

regards
-kamal






On Fri 12 Sep 2003 at 03:15:54 +0200, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> Better example: programming languages.  In C you can write
> 
>   exit(0);;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> 
> which is still one statement.

errr... no. These are a bunch of empty expression statements, according
to my recollection and the following YACC grammar that I found (my K&R
is at home):

statement:
                   labeled_statement 
                 | compound_statement 
                 | expression_statement 
                 | selection_statement 
                 | iteration_statement 
                 | jump_statement 
                 ;

expression_statement:
                   expression_opt ';' 
                 ;

> Cheers,
> Ian
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