illegal character in path

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I am trying to get to a file located in   C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe   In VS debugger i see the path as      C    Program Files  x86    test software   myapp   demo exe      when i print it out i see in console     C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe    but when i try something like   FileInfo fi   new FileInfo PathMentionedAbove      i get Illegal character in path   What is wrong  the file exists and path is correct  what s illegal above this path    any help would be appreciated

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The string is surrounded by double quotes   Yes  that s not a valid character in a path   You should probably tackle it at the source  but you can strip them out with           path   path Replace

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Try this   string path     C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe

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try    C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe

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You seem to have the quote marks     embedded in your string at the start and the end  These are not needed and are illegal characters in a path  How are you initializing the string with the path   This can be seen from the debugger visualizer  as the string starts with     and ends with      it shows that the quotes are part of the string  when they shouldn t be   You can do two thing - a regular escaped string  using    or a verbatim string literal  that starts with a        string str    C   Program Files  x86   test software  myapp  demo exe     Or     string verbatim     C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe

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I usualy would enter the path like this       FileInfo fi   new FileInfo   C  Program Files  x86  test software myapp demo exe       Did you register the   at the beginning of the string   -

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Your path includes   at the beginning and at the end  Drop the quotes  and it ll be ok   The    at the beginning and end of what you see in VS Debugger is what tells us that the quotes are literally in the string

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