Technical name for path elements

Question

You hear terms like "classpath", "build path", etc. all the time, referencing a list of directories that something will look in for a particular reason.

Does anybody know the technical name for each item in these paths? Path Element?!?!

Yes - this is a programming question! I'm writing a classpath explorer object in Java and would like to know what to name my POJO property:

public class ClassPathExplorer
{
    private List<URI> pathElements; // ??????
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '12 at 01:37

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I believe it is called as path or resourcePath

answered Apr 07 '12 at 01:37

Aravind Yarram

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Eclipse's answer: "The build class path is a list of PATHS visible to the compiler when building the project." – Apr 07 '12 at 01:46
So you're thinking `List paths`? – IAmYourFaja Apr 07 '12 at 01:47
@AdamTannon yes List paths – Aravind Yarram Apr 07 '12 at 15:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '12 at 01:57

Generally they are called "File Paths".

OS specific notes

Being closely associated with the file system, the command-line Classpath syntax depends on the operating system. For example:

on all Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux and Mac OS X), the directory structure has a Unix syntax, with separate file paths separated by a colon (":").

on Windows, the directory structure has a Windows syntax, and each file path must be separated by a semicolon (";").

Look at wikipedia page.

Technical name for path elements

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