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File URL correction "\\" instead of "\"

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Posted on by Sandri

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I'm developing a form who gives users opportunity to upload files. I use EDT FileNameOpen in the field so the user can choose the file to upload. After the file selection the field display the URL:

C:\User\MyUser\Download\myFile.txt

I have seen some code where the URL is hard coded and then the developer have change the URL like this: C:\\User\\MyUser\\Download\\myFile.txt - probably so the program don't divide (or try to do that by calculation).

In my chase the URL is a variable so I can't hard code it into the Class.

What should I be aware of to be absolutely sure that the URL will be treated right but not be calculated?

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Martin Dráb 239,650 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you already have the right string, you don't have to worry. The trick is in the conversion from string literals. If you write something like str s = "c:\test", AX expands the escape sequence \t to a tabulator, which is clearly not what you want. You can avoid the problem by adding @ before the literal (str s = @"c:\test"), which prevents the expansion.

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