Backslashes and forward slashes

[Darrall]

I am retrieving a filepath that I need in my program using a folderBrowserDialog. Can anyone tell me how to change all the back slashes to forward slashes? Thanks Darrall

[OriginalGriff]

string withForwardSlashes = withBackwardSlashes.Replace('\\', '/');

or

string withForwardSlashes = withBackwardSlashes.Replace("\\", "/");

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[Darrall]

I tried it exactly as you have it there and I get "Too many characters in character literal" and "No overload for method 'Replace' takes '1' arguments." Any thoughts? Thanks for your time. Darrall

[Dave Kreskowiak]

Darrall wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to change all the back slashes to forward slashes?

For what purpose? In Windows, the standard path seperator is a backslash while the forward slash is used for command line switches.

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[Darrall]

I am using folderBrowserDialog to locate the folder where the user stored his program which also has the location of the data files which are needed for the program. The path is returned as it is in the computer with backslashes but can't be used that way by the program.

[OriginalGriff]

Works fine for me - could you post the code fragment exactly as you have it?

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

Darrall wrote:

Any thoughts?

Yes, two:

• Did you type carefully?
• Post your code if you want us to help you fix it.

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[Darrall]

Here it is :)

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string OldPathName;
string NewPathName;

        if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("MyFolder = " + folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath);
            textBox1.Text = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;

            OldPathName = NewPathName.Replace ('\\','/');
        }

[FyreWyrm]

Backslash is an escape character. The '\' you entered is interpreted as ''. You can change that to @'\' or '\\' and it should work.

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[Darrall]

Thanks :) Somewhere along the line I think C# should have left the backslash alone.

[Lost User]

Using an other character would probably be worse, since so many* languages use the backslash as escape character.. * Perl, Python, Java, ECMAScript, C, C++, PostScript, RTF, awk, sh and many others

[PIEBALDconsult]

Darrall wrote:

can't be used that way by the program

Fix the program.

[OriginalGriff]

I take it from the other responses that that problem is fixed? Now change your code slightly to make it actually work!

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string OldPathName;
string NewPathName;

        if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("MyFolder = " + folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath);
            NewPathName = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;
            textBox1.Text = NewPathName;
            OldPathName = NewPathName.Replace ('\\\\','/');
        }

You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy