Transform String Folder Path

Question

I'm doing a C# project for school.

I need to extract a .zip file but i have a problem.

I get the path where the file that is going to be extract is with FolderBrowserDialog and everything is ok, but the FolderBrowserDialog gives me something like "C:\Users\Zé Eduardo\Music" , but i need something like this "C:\\Users\\Zé Eduardo\\Music".

How can i transform "\" to "\\"?

I may have missed something, but I don't see any difference between what you get and what you want to get... — Laurent S., May 10 '13 at 11:04
@Bartdude I've editing the question, the double slash was being escaped — Bob Vale, May 10 '13 at 11:05
Why do you need to double the `\\`? It is not generally needed. — Oded, May 10 '13 at 11:06
Oh ok; If you mean you have double slash in the debugger, that's normal : try displaying the value and you'll see there's no double slash in it... — Laurent S., May 10 '13 at 11:06
can you show the code where you call `FolderBrowserDialog`, I suspect you don't actually have a problem, its just the way you inspect the path string. — Jodrell, May 10 '13 at 11:07
The program that i am using to unzip the .zip file don´t accept the path "C:\Users\Zé Eduardo\Music" and only works with "C:\\Users\\Zé Eduardo\\Music". I am using dotnetzip 1.9 — José Pedro Brito, May 10 '13 at 11:08
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9294133/full-path-with-double-slash-c — t3hn00b, May 10 '13 at 11:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '13 at 11:10

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well, this is the answer to your question but you are probably asking the wrong question,

var transformedString = badString.Replace(@"\", @"\\");

The @ in the literal means, this is a verbatim string so normal escaping rules don't apply. Effectively, you don't need to escape the escape character.

answered May 10 '13 at 11:10

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Thanks for your answer , problem solved , the unzip reference only works with "\\" . Cheers – José Pedro Brito May 10 '13 at 11:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 10 '13 at 11:14

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Something simple would be to use string replace:

String original = @"c:\some\path";
String @fixed = original.Replace("\\", "\\\\"); //Note the double escaping!

//fixed contains "c:\\some\\path"

edited May 10 '13 at 11:14

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answered May 10 '13 at 11:09

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erm, isn't `fixed` a keyword?????? – Bob Vale May 10 '13 at 11:11
Thanks a lot , I don´t know why but the program just extract my .zip file with "\\" . Your answer is right , thanks a lot for the help :) – José Pedro Brito May 10 '13 at 11:13

Transform String Folder Path

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