ToForwardSlashes

ToForwardSlashes — Take string, switch single/double backslashes to forward.

ToForwardSlashes StringVariable

Return Value

A string where the single/double backslashes are now forward slashes.

Arguments

StringVariable

What to convert. Can be either a value or @VarName (will upvar and read/write).

More Info

Note that this command will always convert double backslashes into a single forward slash. In a future version we may provide an option to convert double backslashes to double forward slashes.

Note that arguments of the form XxxVariable can take either a normal value or the name of a variable to read/write, prefixed by @. See About Using @ for details.

For information regarding exceptions / errors, see here.

% ToForwardSlashes c:\path\to\somefile.txt
c:/path/to/somefile.txt 
% ToFowardSlashes c:\another\path
c:/another/path

% set MyString c:\path\to\somefile.txt 
c:\path\to\somefile.txt 
% ToForwardSlashes @MyString
c:/path/to/somefile.txt