Re: Real simple question about strings...

[Jonathan Castello <twisolar@...>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
>  Little known, but Windows does support '/' as a path separator in addition
> to '\'.  To windows,
>
>        c:\a\b\c\d
>
> and
>
>        c:/a/b/c/d
>
> are the same.  This doesn't apply to the shell (CMD.EXE these days, CMD.COM
> back in the MS-DOS days) but the underlying APIs will accept either '/' or
> '\'.  This has been the case since MS-DOS 2.0.
>
>  -spc (So I would try it with forward '/' slashes and see if that works)
>

They both work for me in cmd.exe. I'm using Windows Vista.

~Jonathan