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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 193

Java command line argument containing backslash

I want to run something similar to the following:

java MyProgram C:\Path\To\My\File

When I do this and output the contents of the first argument, it outputs:

C:PathToMyFile

This works, however:

java MyProgram "C:\Path\To\My\File"

But I want to be able to do the first command instead of the second. How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2473

Answers (1)

recoup8063
recoup8063

Reputation: 4280

The \ charecter is used to "escape" special characters. This means it tells the program to ignore them, or not do anything special to them. To make this work just use \\ instead of \. This escapes the \. So use 

C:\\Path\\To\\My\\File

Upvotes: 1

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