There are scenarios where we want to read files from a path such as \\tsclient\Z\Foreign workers\Contracts. However, for most programming languages — including JavaScript —, a single backslash is used to denote an escape character, such as \n, \t, \f, etc.

In this article, we show you how to specify paths such as \\tsclient\Z\Foreign workers\Contracts in the "Calculate a value" parameter of an activity.

Instructions

Using double backslashes

To specify a backslash (\) in the "Calculate a value" parameter, we need to prefix it with another backslash. So, the result is \\.

If you need to specify two backslashes as in the path \\tsclient then you need to prefix each backslash in the path with a backslash as \\\\tsclient.

Here is an example. Let's say that we need to fill the "Calculate a value" parameter with the path

\\tsclient\Z\Foreign workers\Contracts

Considering the instructions above, the resulting value must be:

\\\\tsclient\\Z\\Foreign workers\\Contracts.

Using normal slashes

As an alternative, we can also use a normal slash (/).

For example:

"C:\\Exch\\" + expDate + ".csv"

"C:/Exch/" + expDate + ".csv"