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It states the string is a literal, warts and all. Without the @, you are
accepting \ as an escape character.

Your second string would fail, as it is not escaping anything valid.

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"David" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I know this isn't a C# group, but its just a quick one.
>
> As a seasoned C++ developer I'm learning C# as I go along. What's the @
> symbol for before a string?
>
> eg:
>
> FileInfo myFile = new FileInfo(@"c:\Temp\Test\readme.txt");
>
> Why can't it just be:
>
> FileInfo myFile = new FileInfo("c:\Temp\Test\readme.txt"); ?
>
> Thanks
>
> David