Question

I need to escape chars in a string I have, which content is C:\\blablabla\blabla\\bla\\SQL.exe to C:\blablabla\blabla\bla\SQL.exe so I could throw a process based on this SQL.exe file.

I tried with Mystring.Replace("\\", @"\"); and Mystring.Replace(@"\\", @"\"); but none worked.

How could I do this?

EDITED: Corrected type in string.

Answer 1

It looks like you’re trying to replace double backslash (@"\\") in a string with single backslash (@"\"). If so try the following

Mystring = Mystring.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

Note: Are you sure that the string even contains double backslashes? Certain environments will print out a single backslash as a double (debugger for example). Your comment mentioned my approach didn’t work. That’s a flag that there’s not actually a double backslash in your string (else it would work).