I have the following scenario:
- Text stored in the database as folder\folder\subfolder
- As soon as I read it into a string variable (directoryPath) in c#, when I look at it in the debugger it appears as folder\\folder\\subfolder
- I call directoryPath.IndexOfAny(System.IO.Path.GetInvaildFileNameChars()) and it returns a positive integer indicating that a match was found (\\) - but it shouldn't be found at all because that really doesn't exist in the string.
How do I do this comparison so that it ignores the escape character in the source string?
I've been reading posts on here for quite a while on the escape character and string literals and pretty much every one I have read is dealing with when you are actually setting the variable and explicitly escaping the \ in the directory path or using the @ symbol. The path is being entered by a user from a textbox right into a viewmodel property, I am not hard-coding a string so I think any of that really applies. My issue is that the escape characters are already in the string as soon as I pull the string from the database (record is NOT stored with escape character) and I need to do a comparison and make sure that "\\" does not actually exist in the string.
Any thoughts?
Thank you!
