Why I can't use \ ?

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I want to use: Keyboard.print("%USERPROFILE%\Documents")

But I cant use \ between quotation marks.

Thanks

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Backslash is the escape character. You have to escape it ... using the escape character :slight_smile:

  Keyboard.print("%USERPROFILE%\\Documents\\")

Pieter

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PieterP:
Backslash is the escape character. You have to escape it ... using the escape character :slight_smile:

  Keyboard.print("%USERPROFILE%\\Documents\\")

Pieter

Thanks you.

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If you don't know what an "escape character" is, the short version is that it combines with the immediate next character to represent special characters that you would normally have a hard time typing. For example, '\t' represents a tab and '\n' represents a line break.

It also removes meaning from characters that would normally be given a special interpretation. Double quotes (") are used to enclose a string, so if you want to use double quotes in your string you need to use " so the compiler knows that is an actual double quote in your text and not meant to be a boundary.

This also means that \ can remove the special meaning from itself, which is why you need to use \ in the file path.