Recently I was trying to use backslashes in the windows cmd. And the cmds behaviour seems really strange to me. For testing out the cmds behaviour, I use this c# code here, which just outputs the passed in parameters:
namespace CsTestProject
{
using System;
static class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
foreach (string item in args)
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
}
}
}
If I run this program with \\\\ \\\\ as input, then the output is \\\\ \\.
As you can see, somehow the cmd seems to be escaping the backslashes differently based on the positioning of the backslashes.
If I add a space at the end of the input and run the program again, then the output is \\\\ \\\\.
It seems as if cmd escapes the last "backslash chain" if there is no other character after the last "backslash chain". It looks something like this when I express it in code:
if (no character after last backslash chain)
{
escape last backslash chain
}
else
{
do nothing
}
Can someone explain to me what is going on?
Thank you very much for your help!
