How to escape “\” characters in Java

Question

As we all know,we can use

string aa=@\"E:\\dev_workspace1\\AccessCore\\WebRoot\\DataFile\" 

in c# in order not to double the \'\\\'.

Answer 1

If you write a path, you should use the '/' as path-separator under Java. The '/' is the official path-separator under Java and will be converted to the appropriate separator for the platform (\ under windows, / under unix). The rest of the string is unchanged if passed to the system, so the '\' also works under windows. But the correct way to represent this path is "E:/dev_workspace1/AccessCore/WebRoot/DataFile".

If you want to represent a '\' in a Java-String you have to escape it with another one: "This String contains a \".