I need to make some Windows file paths that contain spaces into string literals in Scala. I have tried wrapping the entire path in double quotes AND wrapping the entire path in double quotes with each directory name that has a space with single quotes. Now it is wanting an escape character for "\Jun" in both places and I don't know why.
Here are the strings:
val input = "R:\'Unclaimed Property'\'CT State'\2015\Jun\ct_finderlist_2015.pdf"
val output = "R:\'Unclaimed Property'\'CT State'\2015\Jun"
Here is the latest error:
The problem is with the
\
character, that has to be escaped. This should work: