Why does 'filesep' not work with 'gcb'?

Hi,

today a problem occurred, I thought it's kind of a no-brainer, but I was wrong:

If I get the pathname of my current simulink block, I get the following

>> gcb

ans = Mechanics/Spring and Damping Elements/mech_sprdam_2mass

But I can't separate the path. If I ask for my file separator, I get

>> filesep

ans = \

Why is my file separator windows-like, but my given path is in unix style? Is there a way to write my script working on both systems?

[Stephen23]

What operation do you want to perform on the string?

[geieraffe]

I need the separated parts of the string to find them in a documentation.

[Stephen23]

Then use the regexp-based code in my answer.

Answer 1

[Subhadra Mahanti]

When you are writing MATLAB scripts to get or set block names or paths, use forward slashes as forward-slashes are always used as the separators for block names/paths regardless of the platform.

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

This is a very broad question, because it depends entirely on what operations you wish to perform on that string: do you wish to split the paths, create longer filepaths, find root directories, save data, use as a function input (filereading, dir, etc) ... ? Each of these could have quite a different solution, but we can't really give advice until you tell us what you are doing with that path string.

Have a look at my FEX submission natsortfiles, where I use regexp to split up a path string:

%pth = regexp(pth,filesep,'split'); % OS dependent
pth = regexp(pth,'[/\\]','split');  % either / or \

I tried the first line, and then realized that the second avoids problems like that one you have, so I changed to the second line.