Re: [jdee-users] Use of / or of \ under MSWindows

[Carlos K. <cko...@pi...>]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Vincent Belaïche wrote:

> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:41:24 +0200
> From: "[iso-8859-1] Vincent Belaïche" <vin...@ho...>
> To: jdee-users jdee-users <jde...@li...>
> Subject: [jdee-users] Use of / or of \ under MSWindows
> 
>
> Hello,
> I am using JDEE under MSWindow2000, and I am wondering whether there is a good reason why the classpath passed to the java.exe with -classpass uses / and not \ during the debugging sessions.
> I seems that JDEE uses  *nix like shell for the debugging session. Is that a correct understanding ?
> My question is motivated by this that jPicEdt (which I am a developper of) calls System.getProperty("java.class.path") to get the class pass.When jPicEdt is run normally with launching using \, things go well because \ is the system file separator. Buf when I am in debugging session, some stuff goes wrong because of using / instead of \ under MSWindows.
> Best regards,
>   Vincent.

3 reasons:

- In Windows, / works just as well as \ as a path separator.

- In java, / needs no escaping, but \ needs to be escaped as \\.

- If you use /, your code will work on all platforms without
   modification.

Carlos