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Unable to paste \ sign

Asked by Akos Kovacs

I need to paste a filepath into a field. It is pasted by paste() method without \ signs in the file chooser dialog window.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If you manually enter the string like this
paste("C:\_private")
then the backslash character is (wrongly) interpreted as escape sequence starter.

Test your program with
paste("C:\\_private")
and it should correctly output a single backslash.

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Akos Kovacs (plaidshirtakos) said : 		#2

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.