Question

I need to replace double quotes with single so that something like this

\\\\servername\\dir1\\subdir1\\

becomes

\\servername\dir1\subdir1\

I tried this

string dir = "\\\\servername\\dir1\\subdir1\\";
string s = dir.Replace(@"\\", @"\"); 

The result I get is

\\servername\\dir1\\subdir1\\

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You don’t need to replace anything here. The backslashes are escaped, that’s why they are doubled.
Just like \t represents a tabulator, \\ represents a single \. You can see the full list of Escape Sequences on MSDN.

string dir = "\\\\servername\\dir1\\subdir1\\";
Console.WriteLine(dir);

This will output \\servername\dir1\subdir1\.

BTW: You can use the verbatim string to make it more readable:

string dir = @"\\servername\dir1\subdir1\";