Question

"C://test/test/test.png" -> blub

    blub = blub.Replace(@"/", @"\");

result = "C:\\\\test\\test\\test.png"

how does that make sense? It replaces a single / with two \

?

Answer 1

It’s actually working:

string blub = "C://test/test/test.png";
string blub2 = blub.Replace(@"/", @"\");

Console.WriteLine(blub);
Console.WriteLine(blub2);

Output:

C://test/test/test.png
C:\\test\test\test.png

BUT viewing the string in the debugger does show the effect you describe (and is how you would write the string literal in code without the @).

I’ve noticed this before but never found out why the debugger chooses this formatting.