Thread: File path specifications

Ok hi all.
I'm still working on that launcher/patcher, and I need a bit of heads up in a few formatting things.

So the question is: between web and local paths... Does using '/' or '\\' matter?

Now a bit of explanation.

In my resource file, I have a bunch of lines with this kind of formatting:

Code:

relative path to the file|version of the file

the engine loads up both the server resource file and the one that is local to separate dictionaries.

Then engine then compares the 2, deletes all local files that are not mentioned in the server, then downloads every file from the server that has a larger version.

Notice that both paths are in this form:

Code:

string(prefix) + file_path_from_resource_tracker_file.

so now I have to decide exactly how to save the path in the file.

It can either be

Code:

"\\path\\to\\file"

or

Code:

"/path/to/file"

(maybe even

Code:

"\path\to\file"

.

So my question is which way would work for both a target computer relative path (absolute, prefixed with Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()) (C:\\ etc) AND an FTP server.

thanks. so I just use \...
That will work on an ftp server as well. Correct?

Ah, seem to have missed that when looking for C# resources! Thanks for the link. (I've been missing the learncpp.com style tutorials XD)

If in doubt, use Path.Combine.

Code:

string path = Path.Combine("path", "to", "file");