Raw string literal in C++

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 02 Jul, 2019

In C++, to escape characters like “\n” we use an extra “\”. From C++ 11, we can use raw strings in which escape characters (like \n \t or \” ) are not processed. The syntax of raw string is that the literal starts with R”( and ends in )”.

Let’s see an example to see raw string literal in C++:

// C++ program to demonstrate working of raw string.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

// A Normal string

string string1 = "Geeks.\nFor.\nGeeks.\n" ;

// A Raw string

string string2 = R"(Geeks.\nFor.\nGeeks.\n)";

cout << string1 << endl;

cout << string2 << endl;