Overriding the newline constant ? 1

[DLLHell]

How do you get to use "\" as real data in C#? The compiler keeps trying to reject this...

char bozo = '\';
string strData = "This" + bozo + "andThat"
Newline in constant
Too many characters in character literal

char[] bozo = '\';
string strData = "This" + bozo + "andThat"
Newline in constant
Too many characters in character literal

 

[chiph]

You double-up the slash character:

string bozo = "\\";
string strData = "This" + bozo + "andThat"

Chip H.


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[wawalter]

or you can put a @ in front of the string

x = @"folder\file.txt"

 

[chiph]

You know, I don't really care for using the "@" sign to form strings. Maybe it's because C# is so much like C and C++ that I instinctively use the double-slash method. Call me 0ld-5k00l, I guess!

But they'll both work.

Chip H.


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