Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/02/07 21:44

raylopez99 (raylopez99@yahoo.com) writes:
> Yes it worked! You are correct Erland. The double slash did work,
> and the program compiled and worked perfectly. (For some reason the
> forward slash, which usually also works for paths in lieu of the
> double slash, did not compile however).

I would exepct "(local)/SQLEXPRESS" to compile, but certainly not to be
functional.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that if / works just like \ in
file specifications in C++, this is something that is implemented in
the C++ run-time library to achieve Unix compatibility.


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