removing backslashes

 In Skill, just as in C/C++ a backslash character (\) in a string is treated as the start of an escape sequence. For example, if you want to embed a double quote (") in a string you need to escape it:

   a = "Show me a double quote ( \" )"

Some escape characters are special such as newline ( \n ), tab ( \t) etc.

To get a double quote to appear you must escape it with another backslash -- ( \\ ). For UNC paths this can look somewhat odd since you might see in Skill for a UNC path - ( "\\\\server\\c\\tmp" )

Now on UNIX, you rarely encounter a backslash character in strings unless it doing its job of escaping a non-backslash character. But due to the DOS use of the backslash as a directory seperator you see it a lot more on Windows. Fortunately modern Windows APIs will almost always accept the UNIX style directory slash character ex. "//server/c/tmp" will work just as well as "\\\\server\\c\\tmp"

If you have a directory or UNC path string you can use axlOSSlash to convert DOS backslash directory seperators to UNIX style.

Hi Dave

The funny thing here is that I get an error running rexCompile("\\") without running RexMagic(nil) first.

So, some kind of magic must be happening, even for rexCompile :-)

The problem I'm facing is that its a printer name I wan't to pass on to a form and a script to be replayed. I don't know what will happen if I try to adress a printer with forward slash instead of backslash - but I could try. For paths I've always used forward slashes and they work fine - so maybe it will work for printer driver also?  

Best regards

Ole