Variables = to file paths

[pindercarl]

Whenever you need to use a special character in a string, you need to precede it with an escape character, the backslash.

A file path would then look like this: "z:\\foo\\bar\\blarg\\". The first backslash tells the intepreter to expect a special character and then you follow it with the special character. Quotes are done in the same way: "this is a \"string\" with quotes".

A tab is \t, a newline is \n, etc.

For file paths in MaxScript you can use the forward slash instead: "z:/foo/bar/blarg" but this isn't something I like to do. If you are going to be passing the paths out to something external like a DOSCommand, then you want the backslashes in there.

Hope that helps.

[Jonbojangles]

That is exactly what I needed to know.

Thank you very much.

--J

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