Why the @ ?

[tshad]

In my sample program I have the following:

File.Create(@"c:\newfile.zip")

Why does it use an @ sign?

I don't normally have to do that in my code to open a file.

Thanks,

Tom

[VJ]

@ is escape indcator..

File.Create(@"c:\newfile.zip")
or
File.Create("c:\\newfile.zip")

VJ

"tshad" <[e-mail] in message
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In my sample program I have the following:

File.Create(@"c:\newfile.zip")

Why does it use an @ sign?

I don't normally have to do that in my code to open a file.

Thanks,

Tom

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

tshad <[e-mail]:

In my sample program I have the following:

File.Create(@"c:\newfile.zip")

Why does it use an @ sign?

I don't normally have to do that in my code to open a file.

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

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[Mark Rae]

"VJ" <no***********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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>@ is escape indcator..

No it isn't - @ indicates that what follows it is a string literal...

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

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"VJ" <no***********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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@ is escape indcator..

No it isn't - @ indicates that what follows it is a string literal...

More importantly, a verbatim string literal. Just "hello" is a string
literal.

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[rossum]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:05:08 -0700, "tshad" <[e-mail]:

>In my sample program I have the following:

File.Create(@"c:\newfile.zip")

Why does it use an @ sign?

I don't normally have to do that in my code to open a file.

Thanks,

Tom

Look carefully at your string, it has "\n" in it, which is normally a
newline character. The @ indicates that the string is to be
interpreted literally, without any of the special characters such as
\n, \t etc.

Alternatives are :

File.Create("c:\\newfile.zip")

or

File.Create("c:/newfile.zip")

The first alternative escapes the '\', the second makes use of the
fact that Windows recognises Unix-style filenames with '/' instead of
'\'.

rossum

[Mark Rae]

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
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>@ is escape indcator..

No it isn't - @ indicates that what follows it is a string literal...

More importantly, a verbatim string literal. Just "hello" is a string
literal.

Quite so - apologies, I should have been more precise...