[summer_breeze]

I tried to write "2/9/2013" to a text file.
But failed to do so.

Is it possible to write "/" including others characters contained in a string in the text file?"

[sepp2k]

It's perfectly possible to write a string containing /s to a file - there's nothing special about the / character. If your code failed, it must have failed for different reasons.

[snoopy11]

summer_breeze, on 09 February 2013 - 11:13 AM, said:

I tried to write "2/9/2013" to a text file.
But failed to do so.

Is it possible to write "/" including others characters contained in a string in the text file?"

Did you mean to post

I tried to write "2\9\2013" to a text file but failed to do so....

as the character "/" is not a special character however "\" is and you need to write

"2\\9\\2013" for it to show up as "2\3\2013"

Best Wishes

Snoopy.

[sepp2k]

snoopy11, on 09 February 2013 - 12:52 PM, said:

I tried to write "2\9\2013" to a text file but failed to do so....

Why would they write a date using backslashes? I mean I get where you're coming from since the OP talked about special characters, but who formats dates using backslashes?

This post has been edited by sepp2k: 09 February 2013 - 05:19 AM

[Skydiver]

<sarcasm>
Who uses colons as path separators?
</sarcasm>
Mac OS users.


Seriously, though, it's unlikely that somebody uses backslashes for formatting dates, at least based on what I can see here: http://en.wikipedia....rmat_by_country