Re: [Dev-C++] Backslashes in Windows path and escaping

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Jan Mura <jan...@vo...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I need to put in a char const a full Windows path to a file.
>  I.e. i did it as follows
>
>  fopen ("..\path\filename", "r");
>
>  It puts down some warnings about unknown escape characters.
>  So I rewrite it to :
>
>  fopen ("..\\path\\filename", "r");
>
>  Is this correct?

Yes, that is correct.

The '\' character is an escape character, used to make characters that
are special (eg '\'' get's me a single quote mark).

By escaping the escape character you get a single backwhack.

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