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In the File class there are two strings, separator and pathSeparator.
What's the difference? When should I use one over the other?
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The file separator is the character used to separate the directory names that make up the path to a specific location.
pathSeparator is used to separate individual file paths in a list of file paths. Consider on windows, the PATH environment variable. You use a ; to separate the file paths so on Windows File. pathSeparator would be ; . File.
A file separator is a character that is used to separate directory names that make up a path to a particular location. This character is operating system specific.
pathSeparator: Platform dependent variable for path-separator. For example PATH or CLASSPATH variable list of paths separated by ':' in Unix systems and ';' in Windows system. File. pathSeparatorChar: Same as pathSeparator but it's char.
If you mean File.separator and File.pathSeparator then:
File.pathSeparator is used to separate individual file paths in a list of file paths. Consider on windows, the PATH environment variable. You use a ; to separate the file paths so on Windows File.pathSeparator would be ;.
File.separator is either / or \ that is used to split up the path to a specific file. For example on Windows it is \ or C:\Documents\Test
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