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In my java code, I have some hard coded paths which I have written as
String workingPath = initPath + "\\" + tmpPath;
the initPath and tmpPath are obtained by File.getParent(). Now, that works on windows and if I move my code to linux, the \\ will be problematic since the other two are determined by system methods. The results is something like this
/home/mahmood/project/alpha\temp1
How can I fix that? I don't want to put / in my code for linux systems.
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The delimiting character is most commonly the slash ("/"), the backslash character ("\"), or colon (":"), though some operating systems may use a different delimiter.
For file path or directory separator, the Unix system introduced the slash character / as directory separator, and the Microsoft Windows introduced backslash character \ as the directory separator. In a nutshell, this is / on UNIX and \ on Windows.
The path separator is a character commonly used by the operating system to separate individual paths in a list of paths.
A Path can represent a root, a root and a sequence of names, or simply one or more name elements. A Path is considered to be an empty path if it consists solely of one name element that is empty. Accessing a file using an empty path is equivalent to accessing the default directory of the file system.
There is a variable you can use: File.separator
The system-dependent default name-separator character, represented as a string for convenience. This field is initialized to contain the first character of the value of the system property file.separator. On UNIX systems the value of this field is '/'; on Microsoft Windows systems it is '\'.
String workingPath = initPath + File.separator + tmpPath;
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