Newb question. How can i set the following variable = to a directory path?
ToDir = (“Z:\image-dump\items”)
Everytime I try to first this, everything breaks
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Whenever you need to use a special character in a string, you need to precede it with an escape character, the backslash.
A file path would then look like this: “z:\foo\bar\blarg\”. The first backslash tells the intepreter to expect a special character and then you follow it with the special character. Quotes are done in the same way: “this is a “string” with quotes”.
A tab is , a newline is
, etc.
For file paths in MaxScript you can use the forward slash instead: “z:/foo/bar/blarg” but this isn’t something I like to do. If you are going to be passing the paths out to something external like a DOSCommand, then you want the backslashes in there.
Hope that helps.
That is exactly what I needed to know.
Thank you very much.
–J