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Character used as the preferred path separator on this platform.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_pathutil.h>`

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char const k_SEPARATOR;
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== Description

Use of this constant is strongly discouraged, as platforms like Windows may support multiple separators in different contexts; prefer functions to join and split path strings instead.


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