How do I write a backslash in a string

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I want to write something like this C  Users UserName Documents Tasks in a textbox   txtPath Text   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder MyDocuments    Tasks     I get the error       Unrecognized escape sequence     How do I write a backslash in a string

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There is a special function made for this Path Combine    var folder   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder MyDocuments   var fullpath   path Combine folder  Tasks

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txtPath Text   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder MyDocuments      Tasks     Put a double backslash instead of a single backslash

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The backslash       character is a special escape character used to indicate other special characters such as new lines   n   tabs   t   or quotation marks         If you want to include a backslash character itself  you need two backslashes or use the   verbatim string    var s      Tasks      or  var s      Tasks     Read the MSDN documentation C  Specification which discusses the characters that are escaped using the backslash character and the use of the verbatim string literal   Generally speaking  most C   NET developers tend to favour using the   verbatim strings when building file folder paths since it saves them from having to write double backslashes all the time and they can directly copy paste the path  so I would suggest that you get in the habit of doing the same     That all said  in this case  I would actually recommend you use the Path Combine utility method as in  lordkain s answer as then you don t need to worry about whether backslashes are already included in the paths and accidentally doubling-up the slashes or omitting them altogether when combining parts of paths

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Just escape the     by using      Tasks  or use a verbatim string like    Tasks

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To escape the backslash  simply use 2 of them  like this      If you need to escape other things  this may be helpful

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even though this post is quite old I tried something that worked for my case    I wanted to create a string variable with the value below   21541 12 1 13   null   so my approach was like that    build the string using verbatim  string substring     21541 12 1 13    null   and then remove the unwanted backslashes using Remove function  string newsubstring   substring Remove 13  1     Hope that helps  Cheers

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The previous answer is correct but in this specific case I would recommend using the System IO Path Combine method   You can find more details here  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library fyy7a5kt aspx

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