[Jprogramming] cross-platform path separators

[Raul Miller]

Yes - internally, windows supports '/' as a path separator. But it
also supports '\' and for historical reasons uses that a lot.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 2:40 AM 'Robert Raschke' via Programming
<programming at jsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> it has been quite a while since I've actively used Windows. But I've been
> under the impression that backslashes were only needed in the "shell".
> Whenever I was programming in C or Lua or J, I always used forward slashes
> as the directory delimiter on Windows and everything worked correctly.
> Maybe give that a try?
>
> Cheers,
> Robby
>
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:11 Ian Clark, <earthspotty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is MS Windows the only present-day platform that does *not* use slash (/)
> > as a path separator for accessing files?
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