Re: A strange behaviour of a File property

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:13:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<1281158.487.1321049620382.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prou19>
On Friday, November 11, 2011 8:25:11 AM UTC-8, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

ale...@inwind.it <ale...@inwind.it> wrote:

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args){
      File f = new File("."); // try to change the path


...

      for(int i=0; i<content.length; i++){
          file_array[i] = new File("." + "\\" + content[i]);


First of all, did you change the path also here?
   or better: define a variable and use it in both spots.

Second, hardcoding "\\" is the worst approach at assembling a
  file name from components. See the docu for File class for
  a static field that contains the appropriate separator char
  for the current platform. For test code, "/" is often good
  enough (even on Windows).


Or you could use one of:
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/File.html#File(java.io.File, java.lang.String)>
or
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/File.html#File(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)>

--
Lew

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