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- Introduction
- Creating and Using String Objects
- Formatting Strings
- Accessing Individual String Characters
- Analyzing Character Attributes
- Case-Insensitive String Comparison
- Working with Substrings
- Using Verbatim String Syntax
- Choosing Between Constant and Mutable Strings
- Optimizing StringBuilder Performance
- Understanding Basic Regular Expression Syntax
- Validating User Input with Regular Expressions
- Replacing Substrings Using Regular Expressions
- Building a Regular Expression Library
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
3.7. Using Verbatim String Syntax
You want to represent a path to a file using a string without using escape characters for path separators.
Technique
When assigning a literal string to a string object, preface the string with the @ symbol. It turns off all escape-character processing so there is no need to escape path separators:
string nonVerbatim = "C:\\Windows\\Temp"; string verbatim = @"C:\Windows\Temp";
Comments
A compiler error that happens so frequently comes from forgetting to escape path separators. Although a common programming faux pas is to include hard-coded path strings, you can overlook that rule when testing an application. Visual C# .NET added verbatim string syntax as a feature to alleviate the frustration of having to escape all the path separators within a file path string, which can be especially cumbersome for large paths.