00zero
25th May 2006 17:21 UTC

help changing dir seperators
in my install i make an m file that is used by mathematica that simply points to a directory where the install took place. The problem is that the dir structure in mathematica is semperate by teo slashes {c:\\program files\\ vs the normal c:\program files\} i know there is the wordinsert but it only looks at the nth instance and i dont know how long the director structure may be. is ther an easy to relapce all the \ with \\? i say the str replace but im having trouble implmenting it.

thanks
Jonathan

Afrow UK
25th May 2006 17:33 UTC

NSIS Wiki is your friend.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/StrReplace_v4

-Stu

Red Wine
25th May 2006 17:55 UTC

* Put a backslash here means replace this text with a real
backslash as for some reason backslashes removed from code.

OutFile "Output.exe"

Section -
  StrCpy $0 ''
  StrCpy $R0 "c:\program files\my dir\"
  StrCpy $R1 0

_loop:
  StrCpy $R2 $R0 1 $R1
  StrCpy '$0' '$0$R2'

  StrCmp $R2 'put a backslash here' +1 +3

  StrCpy $0 '$0$R2'
  StrCpy '$R2' '$R2also put a backslash here'

  StrCmp $R2 '' _end
  IntOp $R1 $R1 + 1
  goto _loop

_end:
  messagebox mb_ok '$0'
SectionEnd

00zero
25th May 2006 18:24 UTC

thanks

ill give that a try.

-jonathan