I am writing a console application intended to be portable between Windows and Linux and it uses files on the file system for configuration and also for processing data.
Since the path delimiter is different on Unix and Windows I believe I have to handle this in my code, but how?
I could create all paths inside the application using Windows delimiters and then upon usage send them to a "platform filter" like FixPlatformPath() below, which returns the string with the proper delimiters for the platform.
Or else I have to check wherever the paths are dealt with and put conditionals inside the code in many places.
Either way it feels a bit convoluted.
Is there a better way?
function FixPlatformPath(PathIn: string): string;
begin
{$ifdef UNIX}
Result:= StringReplace(PathIn, '\', PathDelim, [rfReplaceAll]);
{$else}
Result:= StringReplace(PathIn, '/', PathDelim, [rfReplaceAll]);
{$endif}
end;This would apply to all functions where files are handled such as reading config data, creating data files or reading data files etc...