What is the difference between a regular string and a verbatim string?

Question

I have a trial version of ReSharper and it always suggests that I switch regular strings to verbatim strings. What is the difference?

Accepted Answer

A verbatim string is one that does not need to be escaped, like a filename:

```
string myFileName = "C:\myfolder\myfile.txt";
```

would be

```
string myFileName = @"C:\myfolder\myfile.txt";
```

The @ symbol means to read that string literally, and don't interpret control characters otherwise.

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