Top "Path-separator" questions

Questions on dealing with path separators in file systems, i.e. the delimiter symbol used by the file system for path components.

When should I use File.separator and when File.pathSeparator?

In the File class there are two strings, separator and pathSeparator. What's the difference? When should I use one over …

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File path issues in R using Windows ("Hex digits in character string" error)

I run R on Windows, and have a csv file on the Desktop. I load it as follows, x<…

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File.separator vs. File.pathSeparator

File has the static Strings separator and pathSeparator. The separator is a "default name-separator character" and the pathSeparator is a "…

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Get directory separator char on Windows? ('\', '/', etc.)

tl;dr: How do I ask Windows what the current directory separator character on the system is? Different versions of …

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Why does the cmd.exe shell on Windows fail with paths using a forward-slash ('/'') path separator?

Just when I'd thought I'd seen it all with Windows path issues, I've now encountered a case that only fails …

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Is there QPath::Combine in QT4?

I need a similar to .NET method for safely combining path parts without worrying for platform specifics of the path …

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File separators of Path name of ZipEntry?

ZIP entries store the full path name of the entry because (I'm sure of the next part) the ZIP archive …

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Path separator char in python 2.4

Just out of curiosity - is there another way to obtain the platform's path separator char than os.path.normcase(…

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