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Synopsis

string fromNativePath( string )

Convert from '/' to '\' path formats on Windows, otherwise does nothing. This proceedure can be used to try to unify path data to use the forward slash character (a safer and more cross-platform way of handling paths, since the forward slash is what Maya uses internally to separate path names).

Return value

None

Keywords

MEL Windows path file , , ,

Arguments
Variable Name Variable Type Description
$pathstring The path to be converted.

MEL examples

		string $native = "c:\\examples\\scripts\\second\\city";

		// Note the double backslashes used in input - in MEL, backslash is

		// a special escape character and for it to be understood as the 

		// backslash character, two backslashes must be used

      string $path = fromNativePath( $native );

		// Result: c:/examples/scripts/second/city // On Windows