Create raw text string in C++, analogous to C#'s "@ string"

Question

I'm coming to C++ from C#. I have a string with a lot of backslashes in it and I'd like to read the string as raw text. Does C++ have something like C#'s "at string"? For example:

string s = @"\\Some\Path";

In my C++ file I'm using:

#include <string>

Answer 1

You can use raw string literals:

std::string s = R"(\Some\Path)";

This feature is available in C++11.

Note that for file system paths you can use forward slashes:

std::string s = "/Some/Path";