Re: the "/" character in File path

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From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:59

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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:07:01 +0200, Yonatan Taub wrote:

> 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.

I regularly use forward ('/') slashes in Java programs under Windows, 
and have never had a problem with it.

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John McGrath [TeamB]

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