kdb/q on windows

[Sam]

I am having a ton of issues with respect to  file paths while running my programs with Q. Apparently even on Windows, Q expect the path to be delimited by "/". So I run into issues when I extract my environment  variables from within Q programs as it is not happy with the windows "\" path separator. This causes problems in interaction between windows batch scripts and Q programs. I end up repeating my variables in batch and in Q. Is there a better solution to this issue? It is a bit annoying.

thanks

[Rory O'Rorke]

Hi Sam,

You could try something like this for your file path calls in windows to change the delimter.

q)system "chdir"

"C:\\Users\\Rory"

q)ssr[first system "chdir";"\\";"/"]

"C:/Users/Rory"

q)hsym `$ssr[first system "chdir";"\\";"/"]

`:C:/Users/Rory

Thanks Rory

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Sam <jain....@gmail.com> wrote:

I am having a ton of issues with respect to  file paths while running my programs with Q. Apparently even on Windows, Q expect the path to be delimited by "/". So I run into issues when I extract my environment  variables from within Q programs as it is not happy with the windows "\" path separator. This causes problems in interaction between windows batch scripts and Q programs. I end up repeating my variables in batch and in Q. Is there a better solution to this issue? It is a bit annoying.

thanks

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[Sam]

Cool thanks. 

p:{hsym `$ssr[x;"\\";"/"]}

q)getenv `KDBHOME

"C:\\kdb\\metrics"

q)pconvert:{hsym `$ssr[x;"\\";"/"]}

q)pconvert getenv `KDBHOME

`:C:/kdb/metrics