the "/" character in File path

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From: Yonatan Taub
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 10:07

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I'm using a Windows 98 OS.
When I create a File instance, I can specify the file it represents by a
string such as "c:/folder1/myfile.txt".
This will work fine although the actual file separator in the Windows
platform is "\".

Just wanted to know if such a thing might matter and if anyone encountered
problems with that.
The other option which requires a bit more typing is concatenating the path
with File.separator.
This would also be platform independent.


Would like to hear your thoughts.

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