Question

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)

Answer 1

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):