@ sign prefacing string value in debugging "watch"?

[Harry Whitehouse]

For some string values, I see an @ character pre-pended to the string data
itself. IOW,

mystring=@"12345Test"

whereas othertimes I don't see the @.

What is the significance of that character in this environment?

TIA

Harry

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Harry Whitehouse <ha***@envmgr.com> wrote:

For some string values, I see an @ character pre-pended to the string data
itself. IOW,

mystring=@"12345Test"

whereas othertimes I don't see the @.

What is the significance of that character in this environment?

It means that any backslash characters displayed aren't used for escape
purposes. For instance:

@"hello\tworld" is hello backslash tworld
whereas
"hello\tworld" is hello tab world

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[Harry Whitehouse]

Jon -- How to I suppress that behavior? The string I'm forming is escaped
binary ("\x1b\xFF"). With the @ in front, I loss the intended escape
sequences.

Best

Harry

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Harry Whitehouse <ha***@envmgr.com> wrote:

For some string values, I see an @ character pre-pended to the string data itself. IOW,

mystring=@"12345Test"

whereas othertimes I don't see the @.

What is the significance of that character in this environment?

It means that any backslash characters displayed aren't used for escape
purposes. For instance:

@"hello\tworld" is hello backslash tworld
whereas
"hello\tworld" is hello tab world

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too