From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-14T20:28:58+09:00
Subject: Re: simple IO question; full path not working

Kaye Ng wrote in post #1064561:
> I fail to see anything wrong with the code.  Can anyone help please?

Like jake already said: Don't use unescaped backslashes in double quoted 
strings. The backslash is a special character.

Your string "O:\Ruby\text2.txt" is actually interpreted as

"O:Ruby  ext2.txt"

Because the first backslash is discarded (there is no \R sequence). And 
the \t is a tab.

I'd always use simple slashes in paths. This works on Windows, too:

'O:/Ruby/text2.txt'

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