What is the '@' prefix infront of string?

Ann Huxtable

Why is it that sometimes strings used in C# are pre-pended by an '@'
character?. Is there any documentation on this (Google searches don't
bring anything useful - "c# + '@' + string variables" etc )

Nov 26 '05 #1

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Tim Wilson

It represents a verbatim string literal.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ec_2_4_4_5.asp

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Nov 26 '05 #2

Andrew Robinson

The @ sign in front of a string tells the compiler to ignore any embeded
escape sequences.

string "\"" would yield a single double quote.
string "\\" would yield a single back slash
string @"\\" would yield two backslashes

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Nov 26 '05 #3

Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]

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The '@' symbol is the verbatim string marker. Basically it means that the
string shouldn't be escaped, that is the escapable characters '\n' for
newline and '\r' for line return, for example, won't be processed.
If written to the console, for example,
"this\nis\na\nline"
would print:
this
is
a
line

@"this\nis\na\nline"
would print:
this\nis\na\nline

Nov 26 '05 #4

Chris R. Timmons

Ann Huxtable <an**********@research-labs.de> wrote in
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Ann,

In addition to the other responses, putting the @ symbol in front of
a string literal allows you to do things like this:

string pageHtml = @"
<html>
<head>
<title>
My Page
<title>
</head>
<body>
Hello, world!
</body>
</html>";
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Nov 26 '05 #5

Ann Huxtable

Ann Huxtable wrote:

many thanks all

Nov 26 '05 #6

Chris Priede

Ann Huxtable wrote:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ec_2_4_4_5.asp

Practically speaking, it is handy if your string contains backslashes or
line breaks, because verbatim string literals may be multiline and the only
character that needs escaping is double quote. On the other hand, if your
string has a lot of double quotes in it, the regular string literal format
with \" escapes may be easier to read.

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Chris Priede

Nov 26 '05 #7

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Ann Huxtable <an**********@research-labs.de> wrote:

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/s....html#literals

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Nov 26 '05 #8

Ted Miller

Besides the uses described in other replies, use of @ also allows keywords
to be used as identifiers.

public void (string @string)
{
Console.WriteLine("Value of string is {0}", @string);
}

IMO the fact that you *can* do this does imply that you *should* do it.

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Dec 4 '05 #9

Chris R. Timmons

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Ted,

Uhhh... Did you mean "does" or "doesn't"?
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Dec 4 '05 #10

Brian Gideon

Ted,

Yeah, the C# language specification mentions that this usage of it was
included for cross language support. The idea being that a keyword in
one language doesn't necessarily mean it is in another. Personally,
I've yet to encounter a reason for using it in this manner.

Brian

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