[Lazarus] Multi-platform console application, how to handle file paths?

Carlos E. R. robin.listas at telefonica.net
Tue Oct 29 12:31:03 CET 2019


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On 29/10/2019 12.25, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:
> I am writing a console application intended to be portable between
> Windows and Linux and it uses files on the file system for
> configuration and also for processing data.
>
> Since the path delimiter is different on Unix and Windows I believe
> I have to handle this in my code, but how?

Thinking...

Define a something case {what system} array of strings. Depending on
the system detected, you use one or the other array of (constant?)
strings, that contains the paths. Assuming they are fixed.


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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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