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semioticDave
Unexpected char:'D' when using File()
May 18th, 2008, 1:15am  
Hi

I'm writting one of the sample projects from "Visualizing Data", and there is one line which keeps it from compiling:

   File rootFile = new File("C:\Documents and Settings\0\My Documents\processing-0135-expert");

I get the error: Unexpected char:'D', by playing with I realized this is the first char in the string. I copied this from the windows explorer so I thought that maybe some unprintable characters are in there, but that doesn't seem to be case as I retyped the string by hand.
Also googled this quickly but haven't been lucky.

Any ideas what this could be
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FrankBerg
Re: Unexpected char:'D' when using File()
Reply #1 - May 18th, 2008, 2:39am  
hi,
it should be C:\\..
explorer hides this from you.

have fun, frank.
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JohnG
Re: Unexpected char:'D' when using File()
Reply #2 - May 18th, 2008, 9:40am  
'\' is the escape character in Java, it means that the next character is a special one and shouldn't be taken literally, e.g. \n means "New line", so to have an actual \ they all need to be \\
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semioticDave
Re: Unexpected char:'D' when using File()
Reply #3 - May 19th, 2008, 2:00am  
Thanks that worked!
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