[news.eclipse.technology] Re: Way to convert paths to OS Specific format

["Harpstein" <mharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I found the Path class which has a ctor that takes a raw string.
Then I just call toOSString and that seems to work for me.

Thanks,

harpstein

"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "Harpstein" <mharp@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:bla6i9$nlq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've got the string "c:\fred\class1.java"
> >
> > Is there some kind of static method or any other way to ask Eclipse to
> give
> > me back the path for the current platform that I'm on?
>
> I think that is not possible for a fundamental reason: When given a string
> without further information the source system is unknown and thus the
> convention for path separators is unknown.
>
> A proper solution could use File.getName() and File.getParent() on the
> source side to split up the complete path into a list of path components
> (Strings) and then use File.File(File, String) to reconstruct it on the
> target side.
>
> > For example, on Windows it would give me back "c:\fred\class1.java" and
> > Linux would give me back "c:/fred/class1.java".
>
> This could easily be achieved by aPathString.replaceAll( "[/\\\\]", "\\" +
> File.separatorChar ) but be warned that this is not a portable solution at
> all.
>
> Regards
>
>     robert
>