How to change \\ into \

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I just made a small program that saves a path into an INI file.

But on the output, the path is written like so :

C:\\Windows

I want it to be put like so :

C:\Windows

I tried many way with the string.replace but one backslash gives error and putting 4 doesn't makes 1 backslashes in the output but 4...

I am out of ideas.

Why do you need to write using \ ? This file will be read by some Windows (native) application? — davidbuzatto, Aug 17 '12 at 01:50
If the INI file is a Properties file, you don't have the choice: you are stuck with the predefined rules for properties files, which dictate backslashes as escape characters, and therefore double backslashes to represent epreal backslashes. — user207421, Aug 17 '12 at 04:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Using the File Separator will give you the platform independent character and you wont have to escape it.

See this question for all the different options.

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answered Aug 17 '12 at 01:50

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Hartleben · Answer 2 · 2012-08-17T01:55:56.073

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Here's an example to get the double backslash:

System.out.println("File path = C:\\"+"\\"+"Windows");

Would output this:

C:\\Windows

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 01:53

As the OP is using Java and I'm assuming that this INI file will be used by a Java application, I don't think that he needs to write the path using backslashes, since Java will convert normal slashes to backslashes in Windows using the File Separator under the hood. So, just write C:/Windows or C:/some/path/here and it will work normally.

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