1. Re: File names
- Posted by David Gay <moggie at INTERLOG.COM> Oct 29, 1998
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> Well, I am still trying to write my first EUPHORIA program. I am >making progress but have another question. > > I define a file name using the constant statement and when I include >the total path as follows: > constant > FILE = "C:\PATH\FILE.TXT" > > It doesn't like the slashes > > If I move the file to the current directory it works fine as I don't >have the slashes in the FILE name. > > How do I solve this problem. I really appreciate the help you have >given me. > > EUPHORIA is quite different in many ways versus QB or FORTRAN and I >am having to slowly work my way through the statements. > >Thanks, > >Jim Roberts To use the slashes as in a directory path, you must specify a pair of slashes for every slash that exists in the path. This is because \ is considered the first of two characters to represent a special character, like \t or \n For example, to open a path to a fictional bitmap called dog.bmp in the C:\windows directory, you must use: c:\\windows\\dog.bmp