'A way to consider the backslash as a normal character
Is there someone who knows how to consider the backslash as a normal character (not an escape character) in a string in Java?
Any help will be appreciated!
Solution 1:[1]
No, Java doesn't have anything like the verbatim string literals of C# and other languages.
Backslash is always an escape character in a Java string or character literal. Note that it's only in literals that Java cares, as a language. The language itself has no special behaviour when it comes to backslashes which already exist within string objects. Some libraries (e.g. regular expressions) treat backslash specially too, but that's a very different matter... and it's important to differentiate between "I already have a backslash in my string, and I'm trying to use the string in a particular context which is sensitive to backslashes" and "I'm trying to create a string with a backslash in, within Java source code, using a string literal".
If you have a text which can include backslashes and you want to simplify it for readability, two options present themselves:
- Use a different character (e.g. forward slash) and then use
String.replaceto replace all occurrences of the other character with backslash - Put your text in a text file which you load at execution time
Solution 2:[2]
Type backslash again to convert the escape character back into a normal backslash:
System.out.print("\\"); will print \.
System.out.print("\"); will give an error.
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