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Escape sequence for strings

string type supports all escape sequence from char type.

Char	Meaning	Value
\'	Single quote	0x0027
\"	Double quote	0x0022
\\	Backslash	0x005C
\0	Null	0x0000
\a	Alert	0x0007
\b	Backspace	0x0008
\f	Form feed	0x000C
\n	New line	0x000A
\r	Carriage return	0x000D
\t	Horizontal tab	0x0009
\v	Vertical tab	0x000B

The following example shows how to create a path string in C#.


using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string path = "c:\\a\\c\\d.exe";
        Console.WriteLine(path);

    }
}

The output:


c:\a\c\d.exe

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