Possible to ignore escape sequences?

Hello all,

I have been working on an application that involves the user typing in the path to a file (I don't want to use the FileChooser at this point). However, when it asks for the file path string you have to escape every directory '\'. So this is what you would need to point to a file: "C:\\path\\to\\file". Is there anyway that I can have the string ignore the '\' escape sequence?

I'm not sure if this is regex material or not, because if so I have no idea how that would work..

Thanks,
lordj

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Originally Posted by lordj

Hello all,

I have been working on an application that involves the user typing in the path to a file (I don't want to use the FileChooser at this point). However, when it asks for the file path string you have to escape every directory '\'. So this is what you would need to point to a file: "C:\\path\\to\\file". Is there anyway that I can have the string ignore the '\' escape sequence?

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This is not entirely true; if you specify a String literal to the compiler it'll translate the String as you've shown above, but if you, say, read a String from the user input, no escaping or String processing happens, i.e. a double \ stays a double \; it is also no regexp issue.

kind regards,

Jos

Ah, ok. I was mixed up then. Thank you!

-lordj