I'm brand-new to C#. Among the samples I've seen is the use of the @ symbol in front of quoted text. What's its purpose?
For my first program, I wrote one that opens Excel workbooks for retrieval and update. In the on-line samples I found, that symbol preceded the filename samples. I omitted that symbol, though, and my program works fine - which leaves me wondering why I see samples with that symbol in them.
It means that the string is "Literal". So you can't use escape strings in it.
For example:Console.WriteLine(@"This\nis a new line");
Output: This\nis a new line
Console.WriteLine("This\nis a new line");
Output:Thisis a new line
Read this Microsoft article which explains what the @ symbol is used for. Too bad C and C++ don't have that.
Aha! Thanks guys.
Too bad C and C++ doesn't have that.
Yeah, languages tend to evolve and improve. Did you also notice that the # sign in C# is in fact two + signs merged together?
Too bad C and C++ don't have that.
C++11 supports raw string literals that accomplish the same goal.
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