Thread: Reading Filename

I create an OpenDialox (sp?) and get the FileName property. But it is in a regular string literal, so it includes escape characters. How can read it in a verbatim string literal or put double escape // characters where there are /? As it is now it is no use.

What he said. And remember: unless you are doing something extremely interesting, you don't want double backslashes and the like inside your string. I mean, when you type "C:\\windows", you don't get two backslashes inside your string, just one, which is what you need when you're dealing with a path.

Originally Posted by tabstop

What he said. And remember: unless you are doing something extremely interesting, you don't want double backslashes and the like inside your string. I mean, when you type "C:\\windows", you don't get two backslashes inside your string, just one, which is what you need when you're dealing with a path.

lol, you are right. Got confused I guess *slaps himself*

In c# also you dont need to escape \ if you dont want to. Placing a @ before the "" will let you type a string literally as it should appear. string fileName = @"C:\data.data";

Originally Posted by valaris

In c# also you dont need to escape \ if you dont want to. Placing a @ before the "" will let you type a string literally as it should appear. string fileName = @"C:\data.data";

Yeah, but can you do this?

Code:

string str = "\n\n";
string s = @str;