Re: Serial Port Accessing / File handling in Local Network

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:34:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On Dec 17, 2:40 pm, pandi <pandiwelco...@gmail.com> wrote:

    [...]

One general doubts is FILE handling, Actually i want to open a file in
desktop and give path like "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
\Desktop\test.txt" but it did not open..since we have space character
in this path. How to open of this type file.


Technically, the limitations on filenames are defined by the
implementation, but practically, all of the implementations I know
will
accept anything the OS will, including white space in the case of
Windows or Unix. What might be causing you problems is the fact that
'\' is an escape character in string literals. Just replace it with
'/'
(which works fine in both Windows and Unix), and there will be no
problems.

Outside of literals, of course: when displaying filenames, you want to
display what the user expects, which is '\' under Windows; and when
parsing them, you want to behave exactly as the system does, which
means
recognizing both '\' and '/' as directory separators under Windows.

--
James Kanze

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