the symbol

[Guest]

hey all,
what does the @ symbol in front of a string mean? @"mystringvalue"

thanks,
rodchar

 

[PokerMan]

means to read characters such as '\' correctly

So if you had a path and you dont want the string read as an escape sequence
you put the @ in front.

 

[DeveloperX]

hey all,
what does the @ symbol in front of a string mean? @"mystringvalue"

thanks,
rodchar

It means take everything after it as the string, so

Console.WriteLine("W\tW");
Console.WriteLine(@"W\tW");

In the first case will write W tab W and in the second will write W\tW
where tab is an actual tab.

 

[Mark Rae]

what does the @ symbol in front of a string mean? @"mystringvalue"

It means a string literal e.g.

string strFolder = "C:\\My Documents";

and

string strFolder = @"C:\My Documents";

will both evaluate to the same string variable...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...GLG:2006-28,GGLG:en&q="C#"+"string+literal"+@

 

[Guest]

thanks everyone for the help. i appreciate it. rodman.