Re: Divide a path into a Drivename, Pathname, and Filename?

> > there is also no absolute guarantee that '\' will turn
> > up in a file spec unless it is made (IIRC) canonical
>
> To be entirely honest I'm not entirely sure what this
> means, are you suggesting that you can have a file
> path without path delimiters?..

I wasn't sure what Jerry was referring to here either. The only thing I could think of is when the file referenced in the default directory...

c:YourFile.ext

Without the backslash, YourFile.ext is located on the c: drive in whatever the current directory of that drive is. Usually this referencing was used from a different drive than the one in the path. This is an old DOS "thing" and I'm not even sure if Windows still respects it; although the MSDOS Command Prompt window does. Drill down to a text file on some sub-directory on the c: drive (let's say it is named SomeTextFile.txt) and then switch to your d: drive (assuming you have one) by entering d: at the current (drilled-down directory location) command prompt. Now, entering this

type c:SomeTextFile.txt

will print (on the screen) the contents of SomeTextFile.txt over in that drilled-down sub-directory on the c: drive.

Rick
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