Question / interfering with console.writeline

[Yair Zach]

I have an ASCII art in my commend line code, but every time I put a \ I get an error.
is there any way to get over this error? maybe an alt code character?
it would be really helpful if someone would help me.
thanks

 

[jmcilhinney]

Perhaps you could provide a full explanation of the error, like an example of the data that causes the issue and the error message. ALWAYS provide a FULL and CLEAR explanation of the problem.

 

[Yair Zach]

this is the backslash\ the error is cs1009 unrecognized escape sequence

 

[Skydiver]

Have you tried using the @"" style string? So that instead of having to write "This has a \\ in it.", you can instead write @"This has a \ in it."?

Anyway part of the issue is that you are trying to embed ASCII art into your code. ASCII art should be treated as a resource. You should store the resource as a resource string or resource stream in your assembly and then load the string or stream when you need to display it.