Re: A strange behaviour of a File property
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)>
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Lew
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