Re: writing a file to hard-coded path in Mac OS X?

From:
steve <steve@aol.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 5 May 2006 05:10:27 +0800
Message-ID:
<e3dqk30u6b@news1.newsguy.com>
On Fri, 5 May 2006 00:51:41 +0800, Bill Christens-Barry wrote
(in article <equipoise1-4F056B.12514004052006@news.verizon.net>):

I am having problems getting the file and path separators working right,
so I'm looking for an example pgm for use in writing a file to a
specified, arbitrary place.

For example, suppose I have the following folder hierarchy on machine
MyCPU:

MyDrive
   ParentFolder
      ChildFolder

and I want to create a File "outputfile.txt" that will be written into
folder "ChildFolder".

Can anyone provide an example that works? My system properties are set to

  path.separator =:

and

  file.separator=/

I've tried far too many permutations and combinations of ":" and a "/"
without success. What am I not getting about separators?

Thanks.

Bill Christens-Barry


it's a Pig.(it's java)
the best way to do it is to use :
URL jarUrl = new URL( "file:/path/to/my/app/updatable.jar" ); (this works
on osx/windows/linux)

if you use URL , then it is the SAME for all platforms , forget about setting
or screwing about with
file.separator etc.

actual working code examples:

  ourProgramDirectory = System.getProperty("user.dir");
int loop=0;
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
                final URL x1 =new URL(((("file:" + ourProgramDirectory) +"/")
+st.nextToken())); //this is a URL so do not use fileSep
                OurJarClassPathArray[loop] = x1; //build an array of class
paths
                loop++;
            }

DO NOT DO THIS!!
    // OurClassPath =
            // new URL[] {
            // new URL("file:" +
ourProgramDirectory+File.separator + "DetailReports.jar") };

if you are still stuck, ask and I will post a full class, as i work on osx

steve

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