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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

by Ivo Balbaert
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with file paths and directories

Red by default uses the forward slash, /in some sort of universal path notation. The / character denotes the root of the current drive, ./ denotes the current folder, and ../ points to the folder one step up in the file hierarchy. As we have seen in the guess-number.red script from Chapter 4, Code-Controlling Structures, this ../ notation is used to denote a path relative to the current folder. An absolute path starts with a drive-letter or with the root drive /.

Use relative paths instead of absolute paths to make your scripts machine-independent. Also make sure that your program can run on Windows as well as on Linux or OS X.

Converting a string to a file is done with to-file, but only the syntax ...

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