Re: XLSWrite

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:45:33PM -0700, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> 
> 
> Allen.Windhorn-2 wrote:
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:address@hidden 
> >>> Creating file c:/test2.xls
> >>> Supported interfaces:  Excel (COM) OK. warning: split is obsolete
> >>> and will be removed from a future version of Octave.  Use strsplit
> >>> instead
> >>> Java/Apache (POI) OK. (& OOXML OK)   Java/JExcelAPI (JXL) OK.
> > 
> >> ...The write error might be related to the forward slash in the
> >> file name (you're running octave under windows, don't you?)
> >> ...
> >> Under windows you should use backslashes when accessing files
> >> (Excel.exe, which is magically invoked behind the scenes, wouldn't
> >> know what to do with forward slashes)...
> > 
> > Apparently you have to use DOUBLE backslashes (to keep them from
> > being interpreted by Octave?)  But forward slashes work fine for me.
> 
> Forward or backward, in any amount, doesn't seem to matter....
> 
> BTW please reply to list only, not to my private e-mail address.

Most components of Windows nowadays understand forward slashes, the
command-prompt being the only exception that I know of.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg