Reading a string from a form as a verbatim string, \\ showing instead of \

Question

I have the following property:

public string InstanceName
{
    get
    {
        return cbServerInstanceName.Text;
    }
}

where the input for

cbServerInstanceName.Text = "ServerName\ PcName"

This is showing up as

 "ServerName\\ PcName"

I tried using the string.replace but couldnt get it to work.

Any ideas?

\\ is the escape sequence for \ backslash. So, that's how it is saved. What issue you facing? — Rohit Vats, Oct 24 '12 at 18:35
As im debugging. Im having issues connecting to my server and i figured that might be the issue. I may be mistaken though. — Hans Rudel, Oct 24 '12 at 18:36
Thanks for ur help guys + someone post that as the answer, ill mark it as accepted once the 10mins is up. — Hans Rudel, Oct 24 '12 at 18:38

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '12 at 18:37

I'm going to take a stab at it and assume you're seeing "ServerName\\ PcName" using the debugger view in Visual Studio. Since it is showing you "a string\\" instead of a @"string literal\", you will see your slashes escaped. Just as you would with "\r\n" if you added a new-line.

If you can try printing your value to a MessageBox, or Debug or the Console. It should appear as you expect. fingers crossed

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '12 at 18:38

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When you are using C# and looking at strings in the debugger, it will escape certain characters and \ is one of them; it will show in the debugger as \\ but at runtime and not viewed in the debugger, it will be converted to a single \

answered Oct 24 '12 at 18:38

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