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Fwd: Re: Re: Filename as Function Argument"

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• Subject: [mg30131] Fwd: Re: [mg30127] Re: Filename as Function Argument"
• From: jmt <jmt at agat.net>
• Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:27:07 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On MS OSes, since \ is an escaping character, you need to write filenames as,
for instance :
"C:\\dir1\\dir2\\myFile.txt"

On Monday 30 July 2001 03:26, you wrote:
> With the similar problem of "filename as argument" I've crossed
> when I used a long path for file of kind "C:\My Documents\1234.txt"
> (I'm not sure that the case was axactly as this...):
>
> during the session it's all OK,
>
> BUT WHEN I SAVED notebook AND THEN RETURNED TO IT
> INSTEAD OF MY "FILENAME' I've got SOMETHING ELSE?!
>
> I guessed that here backslash, \, was involved and so
> I first copied the file into
> C:\Program Files\Wolfram\Mathematica\4.0\1234.txt,
> so that  I need only use ReadList["1234.txt"].
>
> I'm not sure that this is the case but may be it is clear for our dear
> Mathematica Gurus (I mean dear Mathematica, and dear Gurus!)
> what is the matter?
>
> Zak F. Seidov

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