Comment on Show HN: Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school projectComments−tba13yCool project! Anyone trying to run it on *nix will need to open Main.java and replace all instances of the windows-specific file separator "\\" with "/".−jared31413yIt should be using the java.io.File.separator[0] constant for platform independence.[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#s...−madsravn13yFor future reference, just using slash ("/") will work for both Windows and Unix systems (linux and OSX)−jared31413yYes, Windows treats both "/" and "\" as separators. Just make sure you handle the edge cases.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4845866/java-on-windows-p...
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Cool project! Anyone trying to run it on *nix will need to open Main.java and replace all instances of the windows-specific file separator "\\" with "/".
It should be using the java.io.File.separator[0] constant for platform independence.
[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#s...
For future reference, just using slash ("/") will work for both Windows and Unix systems (linux and OSX)
Yes, Windows treats both "/" and "\" as separators. Just make sure you handle the edge cases.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4845866/java-on-windows-p...