Re: Directory separators on Windows
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:05:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Directory separators on Windows | ||
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On 30 March 2017 14:25:02 BST, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote:
>Returning backslashes on Windows seems rather unnecessary in the first
>place, since forward slashes work just fine?
This may be true when using the paths within PHP, but is it true outside of it? If your JSON file
had been read in by a .net application, or used to generate a DOS/NT batch file, wouldn't
forward slashes there have been just as broken as backslashes on a Linux box?
Sadly, I fear this is like trying to automate line ending conversion - the more you try to avoid
being platform-specific, the more awkward cases you introduce.
Regards,
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Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]