How to switch on and off displaying of escape sequences in the strings in Visual Studio 2012 during debugging?

Question

Hi. We have faced a problem on couple of our installations of VS2012. During debugging on these two computers escape sequences in the strings (C++) are not shown (when debugger stops on breakpoint). This creates problems during debugging. On other
installations escape sequences are shown.
For example in the first case string value is shown like "abcdef" while in the second case it is shown like "abc\n\t\tdef".
Where this can be changed?

Answer 1

This is typically controlled with a format specifier on the debugger expression.  For example, if you have a char* variable called "mystring", then enter the following expressions in your watch window and compare:
mystring
"abc\n\tdef"
mystring,s
"abc\n\tdef"
mystring,sb
abcdef
the "b" is for "bare" and eliminates quotes and escape sequences.
There are others such as su, sub, s8, bstr, etc.  See
Format Specifiers in C++.
But having said that, now I have to ask:
Is it native or managed code?
And where, specifically, in the debugger is this value being displayed?  I ask because there are numerous places where a string can be displayed:  watch window, quick-watch window, data-tips (pinned and unpinned), memory window, text visualizer,
debug messages, immediate window, command window, etc.
And, if you are examining a variable, what is its type?   (e.g.: char*, wchar_t*, std::string, std::wstring, etc.)
And if you are examining a complex debugger expression, what expression did you use?  e.g.: mystring,sb