meaning of strings prefixed with @ sign

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Christian Blackburn

Hi Gang,

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

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

Thanks,
Christian
 
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
 
Christian said:
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
Click to expand...

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

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