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Re: Back quotes for raw/literal strings

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be> Aug 17, 2004
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Derek Parnell wrote:
> I'm sorry to report that Euphoria does not have such a facility. I know
> some languages do have a way of representing literal strings that do
> not need 'escaped' characters, but Euphoria only has one string literal
> syntax. All string literals must be enclosed in double-quote characters,
> must not cross over line boundries, and any embedded double-quotes
> and newline characters must be 'escaped' - \" and \n respectively. Thus
> the back-slash character must also be escaped - \\.

In C#, you put an @ in front of your string for unescaping strings:
a = "c:\\euphoria\\";
b = @"c:\euphoria\";

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