If statement based on StartsWith not finding "\\" in C#

Question

I have a string called fileNameArrayEdited which contains "\\windows".The below if statement is not running.

Thinking the problem is else where as people have given me code that should work will be back once I found the problem... thanks!

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith("\\"))
{
    specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}

                // Put all file names in root directory into array.
            string[] fileNameArray = Directory.GetFiles(@specifiedDir);
            int specifiedDirCount = specifiedDir.Count();
            string fileNameArrayEdited = specifiedDir.Remove(0, specifiedDirCount);
            Console.WriteLine(specifiedDir.Remove(0, specifiedDirCount));
            if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\\"))
            {
                specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
                Console.ReadLine();

Answer 1

Use '@' at the beginning of your string if you are searching for exactly two slash

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\\"))
{
  specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}

They are called verbatim strings and they are ignoring escape characters.For better explanation you can take a look at here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/362314fe.aspx

But I suspect in here your one slash is escape character

"\\windows"

So you must search for one slash like this:

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\"))
{
  specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}

Answer 2

When we write

    string s1 = "\\" ; 
    // actual value stored in  s1 is "\"
    string s2 = @"\\" ; 
    // actual value stored in  s2 is "\\"

The second type of string(s) are called "verbatim" strings.