>How does it work? When you pass the parameter to function are you doning it like this?
>MyFunciton(@"TPI\EST\02S\dwg\02S00C\02S00C3b\E1.tif")
>
>>in C#, i have seen people doing
>>

>>@"TPI\EST\02S\dwg\02S00C\02S00C3b\E1.tif"
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>>which apparently says ignore controls chars, but thats only for C# :)

Yup,

Strange I know :)

The compiler must pick it up and either convert the string (\ to \\) or skip a processing call which turns things like \t into the TAB char, and \n into a new line.