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A string literal which would be processed without any language-specific interpretation, avoiding the need of escaping characters and thus providing more legible strings.

Raw strings are particularly useful when a common character needs to be escaped, notably in regular expressions (nested as string literals), where backslash \ is widely used, and in DOS/Windows paths, where backslash is used as a path separator.

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How to convert a "raw" string into a normal string?

In Python, I have a string like this: '\\x89\\n' How can I decode it into a normal string like: '\x89\n'
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escape R"()" in a raw string in C++

string raw_str = R"(R"(foo)")"; If I have R"()" inside a raw string, and that causes the parser to confuse. (ie., it thought the left most )" was the end of the raw string. How do I escape this?
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Does clojure have raw string?

In Python, I can prefix an r to a string literal (raw string) to tell the interpreter not translate special characters in the string: >>> r"abc\nsdf#$%\^" r"abc\nsdf#$%\^" Is there a way to do the same thing in Clojure?
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Python Regex escape operator \ in substitutions & raw strings

I don't understand the logic in the functioning of the scape operator \ in python regex together with r' of raw strings. Some help is appreciated. code: import re text=' esto .es 10 . er - 12 .23 with [ and.Other ] here is more ;…
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Python raw literal string

str = r'c:\path\to\folder\' # my comment IDE: Eclipse Python2.6 When the last character in the string is a backslash, it seems like it will escape the last single quote and treat my comment as part of the string. But the raw string is supposed…
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Why must the delimiters of raw string literals be under 16 chars?

The following program does not compile: #include int main() { std::cout << R"RAW_STRING_LITERAL( hello world )RAW_STRING_LITERAL"; } error: raw string delimiter longer than 16 characters. Why is there a…
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How to create raw string from string variable in python?

You create raw string from a string this way: test_file=open(r'c:\Python27\test.txt','r') How do you create a raw variable from a string variable, such as path = 'c:\Python27\test.txt' test_file=open(rpath,'r') Because I have a file…
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How do I get the raw representation of a string in Python?

I am making a class that relies heavily on regular expressions. Let's say my class looks like this: class Example: def __init__(self, regex): self.regex = regex def __repr__(self): return…
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How to correctly write a raw multiline string in Python?

I know that you can create a multi-line string a few ways: Triple Quotes ''' This is a multi-line string. ''' Concatenating ('this is ' 'a string') Escaping 'This is'\ 'a string' I also know that prefixing the string with r will make it a raw…
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Why can't I end a raw string with a backslash?

I am confused here, even though raw strings convert every \ to \\ but when this \ appears in the end it raises error. >>> r'so\m\e \te\xt' 'so\\m\\e \\te\\xt' >>> r'so\m\e \te\xt\' SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal Update: This is now…
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Python Argparse: Raw string input

Apologies if this has been asked before, I did search for it but all hits seemed to be about python raw strings in general rather than regarding argparse. Anyways, I have a code where the user feeds in a string and then this string is processed.…
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Raw string field value in JSON file

In my JSON file, one of the fields has to carry the content of another file (a string). The string has CRLFs, single/double quotes, tabs. Is there a way to consider my whole string as a raw string so I don't have to escape special characters? Is…
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Python raw string "r" flag equivalent in C#

I am trying to give the file path in C# which contains special/escape characters. I am new to C#. please help me in defining the file path as raw string literals. Following is path (\t has spl meaning): IE_DRIVER_PATH =…
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How to 'raw text' a variable in Python?

I am opening a workbook in openpyxl thus: wb = load_workbook(r'seven.xlsx', data_only=True) The name of the spreadsheet won't always be know in advance, so I need to rewrite this hardcoding to allow for a variable, while still maintaining…
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Carriage return + newline in raw string literals?

Consider a C++ file that has UNIX line endings (i.e. '\x0a' instead of "\x0d\x0a") and includes following raw string literal: const char foo[] = R"(hello^M )"; (where ^M is the actual byte 0x0d (i.e. carriage return)). What should be the result of…
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