MS Office VBA has a property called Application.PathSeparator. I'm supportive of interoperability, but Office runs only on Windows & MacOS, and both platforms use the same \ path separator. W...

require_once dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . './../../../wp-config.php'; require_once dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'inc/options.php'; The above code is from a plugin from the Word...

I am developing a Scala application on Windows, and I need to insert a path to a file into an HTML template. I use Java's io and nio to work with files and paths. /* The paths actually come from t...

I am trying to identify all files with certain names in a folder. I am using standard code to do that looking like this: for paths, subdirs, files in os.walk(start_dir, topdown=True): for file in...

I run R on Windows, and have a csv file on the Desktop. I load it as follows, x<-read.csv("C:\Users\surfcat\Desktop\2006_dissimilarity.csv",header=TRUE) but the R gives the following error me...

ZIP entries store the full path name of the entry because (I'm sure of the next part) the ZIP archive is not organized as directories. The metadata contains the info about how files are supposed to...

I was wondering about the difference between \ and / in file paths. I have noticed that sometimes a path contains /and sometimes it is with \. It would be great if anyone can explain when to use \...

Could you please tell me how to get the file separator of current operating system, for example \ in Windows and / in Unix, in Fortran at run-time.

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

File has the static Strings separator and pathSeparator. The separator is a "default name-separator character" and the pathSeparator is a "path-separator character". What is the difference? ...

Just when I'd thought I'd seen it all with Windows path issues, I've now encountered a case that only fails when '/' (forward-slash) is used as the path separator is used: C:\temp\tcbugs>mkdir ...

I need a similar to .NET method for safely combining path parts without worrying for platform specifics of the path separator. Is there such class and method in QT4? Something like: QPath::Combi...

tl;dr: How do I ask Windows what the current directory separator character on the system is? Different versions of Windows seem to behave differently (e.g. \ and / both work on the English version...

Just out of curiosity - is there another way to obtain the platform's path separator char than os.path.normcase('/') in Python 2.4? I was expecting something like a os.path.separator constant...