Computer Science Canada Illegal character in string literal |
| Author: | Luffy123 [ Thu May 10, 2012 8:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Illegal character in string literal |
I was importing a class so the location was C:\Users\Downloads... so i put this as the import Import Name in "C:\Users\Downloads..." without the ... of course but it said illegal character in string literal turned out I had to change / to this one \ and then it worked. Why is that? My address bar had \. |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Thu May 10, 2012 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Illegal character in string literal |
The backslash (\) is an "escape character". Suppose you want to put a double quote in your strings -- well, you'd be screwed because double-quote ends a string. However, if you write \", then you will escape the double quote, so it won't have its usual effect. That creates another problem, though: what if you want to write an actual backslash? Simple -- escape it too. Write \\ and you'll get \, inside a string context. The reason that forward slash works is that somewhere (probably in a Windows API call) paths containing / are converted to the (correct-for-Windows) path separator of \ . Other escape characters include \t (tab) and \n (newline). \(space) is not valid -- hence, "Illegal character in string literal". |
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| Author: | Raknarg [ Fri May 11, 2012 1:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Illegal character in string literal |
so to simplify, use \\ or / |
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