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Re: the "/" character in File path

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From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:41
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John:

I do the same thing.  The *nix convention gets preferential treatment in
so many places that I just use it by default.  For display or platform
output I'll always transform to "local conventions".

-Rich

"John McGrath [TeamB]" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> John McGrath [TeamB]
> 
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