X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Futil%2FPlatform.java;fp=src%2Fjalview%2Futil%2FPlatform.java;h=c1d82281a63f1b4e69acc50cb271879824070141;hb=4d08d42e4ac66d978ff1f2929797695cd5217102;hp=22032b54153368c42ca9163786c44085d4179d15;hpb=cc5380d16566728ce9af78e3b5be7a40c98c7b63;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
index 22032b5..c1d8228 100644
--- a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
  */
 package jalview.util;
 
-import java.awt.Toolkit;
 import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
 
 /**
@@ -88,23 +87,15 @@ public class Platform
   }
 
   /**
-   * escape a string according to the local platform's escape character
+   * Answers the input with every backslash replaced with a double backslash (an
+   * 'escaped' single backslash)
    * 
-   * @param file
-   * @return escaped file
+   * @param s
+   * @return
    */
-  public static String escapeString(String file)
+  public static String escapeBackslashes(String s)
   {
-    StringBuffer f = new StringBuffer();
-    int p = 0, lastp = 0;
-    while ((p = file.indexOf('\\', lastp)) > -1)
-    {
-      f.append(file.subSequence(lastp, p));
-      f.append("\\\\");
-      lastp = p + 1;
-    }
-    f.append(file.substring(lastp));
-    return f.toString();
+    return s == null ? null : s.replace("\\", "\\\\");
   }
 
   /**
@@ -145,4 +136,27 @@ public class Platform
     }
     return e.isControlDown();
   }
+
+  /**
+   * A (case sensitive) file path comparator that ignores the difference between /
+   * and \
+   * 
+   * @param path1
+   * @param path2
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static boolean pathEquals(String path1, String path2)
+  {
+    if (path1 == null)
+    {
+      return path2 == null;
+    }
+    if (path2 == null)
+    {
+      return false;
+    }
+    String p1 = path1.replace('\\', '/');
+    String p2 = path2.replace('\\', '/');
+    return p1.equals(p2);
+  }
 }