What does @ symbol in C#

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Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

It means a string literal, or a string raw, without considering escape characters the \ character acts as escape to insert special characters in string , and because it is a network address, you really want this character to be considered. If you do not use @ , you would have to duplicate the backslash in this way: string a = "\servidor01\arquivos" Here are some other examples of the content that the variable will display. string a = "hello, world" ; // hello, world string b = @ "hello, world" ; // hello, world string c = "hello 	 world" ; // hello world string d = @ "hello 	 world" ; // hello 	 world string e = "Joe said "Hello" to me" ; // Joe said "Hello" to me string f = @ "Joe said " "Hello" " to me" ; // Joe said "Hello" to me string g = "\server\share\file.txt" ; // \server\share\file.txt string h = @ "\server\share\file.txt" ; // \server\share\file.txt

Sachin Singh · Answer

There are number of uses of @ in .Net 1. To avoid multiple sentance formatting error, this means if your string have multi lines then you are bound to use @ symbol to avoid errors otherwise you will need to concatinate string with + symabol after each line. Console.WriteLine(@"Ram is young, Ram is honest as well, beacuse Ram is ram hahaha". "); 2. To avoid escape sequences as mentioned by everyone. 3. In MVC Razor @ is used to bring server side code into client side like @Html.TextBox(); @Session[ "username" ];

Rijwan Ansari · Answer

We normally use @ when our string is in complex format which inclue "\", "	", or html tags. In such case, @ is used in string in order to display string as it is, ignoring those html, "
" or "	" likewise.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Here is a detailed article on string interpolation: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/understanding-string-interpolation-in-c-sharp/

Nabin Agarwala · Answer

Thank you

What does @ symbol in C#

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