Environment with string replace ....

[Gabriel]

Hello,

I do this :

s = Environment.CurrentDirectory;
s = s.Replace("\\", @"\");
Environment.CurrentDirectiry return a path like this C:\\....\\....\\.....
I'd like replace the \\ by \, but the code I use not work. Any idea ?

Best Regards,

 

[Alex Meleta]

Hi Gabriel,

You forgot @ at first string.
s.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

Regards, Alex
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[Gabriel]

You forgot @ at first string.
s.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

Hello Alex,

It's strange that. In the debugger I see \\ but when I display the path in
the application caption I see \

Thanks,

 

[james]

Gabriel,

Do Console.WriteLine(s) and it prints correctly. Internally \\ is the
code for backslash... the first backslash gets special handling. Its
used for \n is newline, \t is tab, and \\ is backslash.

-James

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Gabriel,

Probably you achieve your goal easier with the path class.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path(VS.71).aspx

Cor

 

[Smithers]

The back slash is a special character to the C# compiler. So, when you want
to use it in a string, you must place an escape character in front of it.
The escape character is also a back slash. (alternatively, you can place the
'@' character in front of a string to indicate to the compiler that the
following is a literal string, with no special characters in it.

Consequently the compiler treats or sees
"\\"
and
@"\"
as the exact same string.

So your original replace operation , s = s.Replace("\\", @"\"); , replaces
a single back slash with a single back slash. This is a nonsensical
operation.

If you want to replace two back slashes with a single back slash, either of
these should work:
s = s.Replace("\\\\", "\\");
or
s = s.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

Note that this "escape character" stuff is all for the compiler. So the
comiler will, for example, translate "\\" to be "\" in the output assembly.
This is why you see "\\" in Visual Studio, when your application shows "\"

-HTH

-S

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

It's strange that. In the debugger I see \\ but when I display the path in
the application caption I see \

What you're seeing in the debugger is the string literal you'd have to
type in to get the actual string. It catches lots of people out. The
*real* string only has a single backslash.

Jon