Define std::string in C++ without escape characters

Question

What would be the most painless way to input un-escaped characters sequence to std::string?

Instead of

 std::string st = \"C:\\\\program         


        

Answer 1

C & C++ only supports using \ to escape strings, and you have to use it. If you have a bunch of paths to work with, I'd suggest opening them in an editor and doing a bulk replacement of \ with \\.

Answer 2

For filenames, just use (forward? back?) the other direction slash. It works on Windows too:

std::string st = "C:/program files/myFile.txt";

Answer 3

You can do it with C++11 raw string literals:

std::string st = R"(C:\program files\myFile.txt)";