On 8/27/06, Jimisola Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Veys wrote: > I was under the impression / would _always_ work, on either platform when > passing a path to the File class. Me too. That's why I tested on Linux with backslashes in the path.. > So as you can see, the File class is tolerant of windows, but the / > path separator works in both cases. I would just stick with that. I > don't really know exactly what issue this was causing you, unless it > was just confusion on the Windows-user side. Actual manipulation of > the file should always work if you use / separators in relative paths. I was started to assume that there was a bug in Maven while in fact the JRE was a fault. Seems kind of odd that it doesn't work both ways. One would think that Sun would have taken care of that. Anyway, problem solved.
Yeah, thats why I said "you can just use *forward slash* for paths." Backslashes are not platform neutral in Java. Thank you for your little test.
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