Unrecognized escape sequence for path string containing backslashes

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The following code generates a compiler error about an  unrecognized escape sequence  for each backslash   string foo    D  Projects Some Kind Of Pathproblem wuhoo xml     I guess I need to escape backslash  How do I do that

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string foo    D   Projects  Some  Kind  Of  Pathproblem  wuhoo xml     This will work  or the previous examples will  too         means treat everything between the quote marks literally  so you can do    Hello world    To include a literal newline  I m more old school and prefer to escape     with

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If your string is a file path  as in your example  you can also use Unix style file paths   string foo    D  Projects Some Kind Of Pathproblem wuhoo xml     But the other answers have the more general solutions to string escaping in C

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Try this   string foo     D  Projects Some Kind Of Pathproblem wuhoo xml     The problem is that in a string  a   is an escape character  By using the   sign you tell the compiler to ignore the escape characters   You can also get by with escaping the     string foo    D   Projects  Some  Kind  Of  Pathproblem  wuhoo xml

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var foo     D  Projects Some Kind Of Pathproblem wuhoo xml

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You can either use a double backslash each time   string foo    D   Projects  Some  Kind  Of  Pathproblem  wuhoo xml     or use the   symbol  string foo     D  Projects Some Kind Of Pathproblem wuhoo xml

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