Convert Unix Style Path to Windows (or OS-specific) path in LABVIEW
I am using labview 8.5.1
I have the path to a file stored as a unix-style string in a text file. (e.g. the file contains the string /refs/heads/master )
I would like to convert this to a path in LABVIEW, but the string-to-path function assumes that I have a windows style path string (e.g. \refs\heads\master )
The specific context in which this comes up is I want to log a git hash code with collected data so I will always know the specific version of the software I am using, and git stores files as unix-style-strings.
A quick solution is to find&change all / to \, but this is inelegant & also will cause the VI to crash if it is ever run on OSX or any other OS that uses unix style formatting.
Is there a way to force the string-to-path VI to use a specific OS style?
(suggested tag: path-formatting)
You can convert the string to an array of strings (by using the / as delimiter) and convert the resulting array into a LabVIEW Path datatype (which internally is an array of strings):
