meaning of strings prefixed with @ sign

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Gang,

Does @ mean the working directory in strings?
strFile = @"\DoNotCallFil ter\Setup.exe";

Does it change the way the string has to be escaped? Normally, I
would think you'd have to do strFile = "\\DoNotCallFil ter\\Setup.exe" ;

Thanks,
Christian

[Christian Blackburn]

Re: meaning of strings prefixed with @ sign

Hi Gang,

I feel like a total dork, moments after I posted this I saw someone
had just asked that. It's a verbatim string literal and behaves more
like VB, my native language so that's groovy at least where file paths
are concerned.

Thanks,
Christian

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

Re: meaning of strings prefixed with @ sign

Christian Blackburn wrote:

Hi Gang,
>
I feel like a total dork, moments after I posted this I saw someone
had just asked that. It's a verbatim string literal and behaves more
like VB, my native language so that's groovy at least where file paths
are concerned.
>
Thanks,
Christian

It's even groovier than that. :) You can even have line breaks in a
literal string:

string xml =
@"<root>
<name>Peter Pan</name>
<address>Neverl and 1</address>
</root>";

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