How to do a verbatim string literal in VB.NET?

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CJ7 picture CJ7 · Oct 31, 2012 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

How do you do a verbatim string literal in VB.NET?

This is achieved in C# as follows:

String str = @"c:\folder1\file1.txt";

This means that the backslashes are treated literally and not as escape characters.

How is this achieved in VB.NET?

Answer

Steve picture Steve · Oct 31, 2012

All string literals in VB.NET are verbatim string literals. Simply write

Dim str As String = "c:\folder1\file1.txt"

VB.NET doesn't support inline control characters. So backslashes are always interpreted literally.

The only character that needs to be escaped is the double quotation mark, which is escaped by doubling it, as you do in C#

Dim s As String = """Ahoy!"" cried the captain." ' "Ahoy!" cried the captain.

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