Is there a C# equivalent to File.separator in Java

Question

How does C# cope with file separators? Is it always assumed the file separator is "\" (or "\\" and does this have to be escaped like this?

Answer 1

I think Path.DirectorySeparatorChar is what you need. You can find it in the System.IO namespace.

Answer 2

To combine paths use, and as suggested by Geo, this works in conjunction with DirectorySeparatorChar

IO.Path.Combine("path", "file.ext");

Answer 3

If by file separators, you really mean directory separators, then you need Path.DirectorySeparatorChar and Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar.

These will get the relevant platform-specific characters, without having to hard-code them (and also avoiding the need to escape them properly).