What is equivalent in JavaScript to C#'s @ language feature for ignoring escape chars in string literals?

Question

I think this question may be fairly evident from the title alone: I am a C# developer who often uses @ before a string literal to make it more readable (e.g. string drive = @"C:\")

I am in the process of scripting out a lot of my processes (using the wonderful V8 for .Net) and I am wondering whether there's a similar feature in JavaScript?

Answer 1

No, unfortunately there is no such feature. In JavaScript you can enclose strings in double quotes "..." or in single quotes '...', but in both cases you will have to escape that quote character as well as the backslash.

Answer 2

It's not what you're after, but you can have a string that spans multiple lines like so

var s = "hello\
         world";

Although this isn't part of the standard, so your engine might not support it.

I found out about it here: http://helephant.com/2007/05/spanning-javascript-strings-across-multiple-lines/