Including \ in a String

Question

hi.
I'm reading a string from a file, to display it in a GUI of the form C:\Program Files
As \ is an escape character, what is displayed in the GUI is C:ProgramFiles
How can I read the string from the file, and escape the \, so that I can display C:\\Program Files, without having to escape the \ in the .txt file that it is read from?
thanks
james

Answer 1

That should be on problem in reading this content from the file. Try following code
import java.io.*;
public class ReadFile {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("test.txt");
byte data[] = new byte[in.available()];
in.read(data);
in.close();
String s = new String(data);
System.out.println("content: " + s);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
content of test.txt
C:\Program File
Best Regards,
Angus