Can I get 'H:\' (not 'H:\\')from FULLFILE?

In Matlab R2015b (Windows), FULLFILE('H:','\') returns 'H:\\' with a double-backslash, which raises bugs in our code. Older versions (e.g. R2010b) returned 'H:\' with the correct single-backslash. How do I get 'H:\' from FULLFILE?

Answer 1

[Jan]

This is a bug in fullfile. While this works correctly:

fullfile('H:\Folder\', filesep)
%  'H:\Folder\'

this is wrong:

fullfile('H:\', filesep)
%  'H:\\'

I'm using this replacement: FEX: JoinPath . You could store this in a folder, which is located before the toolboxes of Matlab in the PATH, and call it "fullfile.m". But I hesitate to shadow built-in functions.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

This also occurs in R2016a.

Don't even use \ (backslash). Forward slash / works just fine in Windows, as well as Linux. Why are you still using backslash?

[Mark]

>> fullfile('H:','/')

ans = H:\\

>>

[Image Analyst]

Perhaps it is a bug.

If you know your second path part is a single slash, then just hard code it

folder = 'H:/';