Question

Proberly a very simple question, but within Java, I have a string as follows:

public static String wincpuload = "cmd /c @for /f "skip=1" %p in ('wmic cpu get loadpercentage') do @echo %p%";

Although I get a syntax error because of some of the charcters in the string are breaking it. Similarly in C#, if you have this kind of problem you do:

string test = @"C:\testing\test"

How can you overecome this in java?

Answer 1

Just use a back slash (\) to escape your double quotes. Note the syntax highlighting below:

Incorrect

String s1 = "cmd /c @for /f "skip=1" %p in ('wmic cpu get loadpercentage') do @echo %p%";

Correct

String s2 = "cmd /c @for /f \"skip=1\" %p in ('wmic cpu get loadpercentage') do @echo %p%";