Home/ Questions/Q 8499741
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-11T00:45:01+00:00

So I need to remove escaped backslashes from a string (in my case, a

  • 0

So I need to remove escaped backslashes from a string (in my case, a path simply like “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE\”).

To replace I’ve tried the following:

String openWith = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE";

string newString = openWith.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

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

openWith = Regex.Replace(openWith,"\\\\","\\");

But none of these work!! Would anyone be able to explain to me why this may be?

Thank you in advance!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Your string doesn’t contain doubled backslashes.

    The first backslash in "C:\\" is an escape character which is interpreted by the C# compiler. At runtime however the string only contains single backslashes. You can prove this to yourself by displaying the value of the string:

    String openWith = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE";
Console.WriteLine(openWith);

    Result:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE

    Note that there are only single backslashes in the output.

    See it working online: ideone

    • 0