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Hi, I am facing a problem where escape character getting printed. String str = "first \n second"; expected output is first second Assume that this string "str" is build by some other part of the program and on printing output i am getting is first \n second Please can anyone tell where i am going wrong. Thanks in advance. -arun
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Philip Shanks
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It's just a hunch, but I would double check that the program that creates the string isn't actually creating it as "\\n". In that case the backslash character itself is being escaped to give a literal backslash. PCS
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Biju Philip
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Note sure if it's what you want, but here's the platform-independent way to do it:
-Biju [ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: Biju Philip ]
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