Java equivalent to C#'s @ symbol for escaping \ [duplicate]

Question

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Java equivalent of C#'s verbatim strings with @

An example in C# would be:

string path = @"C:\myfile.txt";

Another example is the answer to this question.

Answer 1

There is nothing equivalent to the @ symbol in Java - you must escape each and every backslash in a String literal.

Answer 2

String path = "C:\\myfile.txt";
// or "C:/myfile.txt";
// or "C:" + System.getProperty("file.separator") + "myfile.txt";