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Apr 17, 2008, 9:17:55 AM4/17/08

Hi,

I know this isn't a C# group, but its just a quick one.

As a seasoned C++ developer I'm learning C# as I go along. What's the @
symbol for before a string?

eg:

FileInfo myFile = new FileInfo(@"c:\Temp\Test\readme.txt");

Why can't it just be:

FileInfo myFile = new FileInfo("c:\Temp\Test\readme.txt"); ?

Thanks

David

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Apr 17, 2008, 9:29:56 AM4/17/08

S'ok- found out.

Its for treating the '\' marks as '\' marks, not leading characters.

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Apr 17, 2008, 9:26:08 AM4/17/08

"David" <a...@asd.com> wrote in message
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Because it escapes all the characters in the string. It couldn't be the
second example you gave, it would have to be:

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Apr 17, 2008, 9:44:25 AM4/17/08

"David" <a...@asd.com> wrote in message
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> What's the @ symbol for before a string?

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Apr 17, 2008, 11:49:44 AM4/17/08

It states the string is a literal, warts and all. Without the @, you are
accepting \ as an escape character.

Your second string would fail, as it is not escaping anything valid.

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