Splitting javascript string

bazcaz

var a="C:\Documents\C\S"; 
var ar=a.split("\\"); 
alert(ar[0]+" "+ar[1]);

Output : C:DocumentsCS undefined

It should be "C: Documents" instead whats wrong with the code????
Any ideas??

GreeBo

what do you get if you change the path to
var a="C:\\Documents\\C\\S";

bazcaz

Fixed cheers for help anyway

GreeBo

what was it?

bazcaz

I was getting a file path like C:\Documents and Settings\User\...... and reading it into a variable and I was trying to work out a way in which to split it by \ so as a test I had tried that code above where I explicitly created the string C:\Document\C\D but the difference is that the file path in the first instance must have been saved in the variable as C:\\Documents and Settings\\User so my split line would work fine on that which is what I wanted but in the other case I had explicitly created the string with only a single \ separator so the code doesnt work there.

Do you get me??

GreeBo

yep, thats what I was getting at with my first post.

If its a generated path it will already be escaped.
Whats generating the path?

(Note that you can use unix style paths ("/") and they dont need to be escaped and will work on Unix and Windows)

bazcaz

A bit of framework code for an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird