diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
index 9ba2b321d..d837f424d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
@@ -365,18 +365,6 @@ public class DirectoryScanner implements FileScanner, SelectorScanner {
         return SelectorUtils.match(pattern, str, isCaseSensitive);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Breaks a path up into a Vector of path elements, tokenizing on
-     * <code>File.separator</code>.
-     *
-     * @param path Path to tokenize. Must not be <code>null</code>.
-     *
-     * @return a Vector of path elements from the tokenized path
-     */
-    private static Vector tokenizePath (String path) {
-        return SelectorUtils.tokenizePath(path);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Sets the base directory to be scanned. This is the directory which is
      * scanned recursively. All '/' and '\' characters are replaced by
@@ -934,7 +922,7 @@ public class DirectoryScanner implements FileScanner, SelectorScanner {
     /**
      * <p>Returns the names of the directories which were selected out and
      * therefore not ultimately included.</p>
-     * 
+     *
      * <p>The names are relative to the base directory. This involves
      * performing a slow scan if one has not already been completed.</p>
      *