If statement based on StartsWith not finding "\\" in C#

Question

I have a user-defined string called fileNameArrayEdited which contains "\\windows".The below if statement is not running.

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith("\\"))
{
    specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}

// Put all file names in root directory into array.
string[] fileNameArray = Directory.GetFiles(@specifiedDir);
int specifiedDirCount = specifiedDir.Count();
string fileNameArrayEdited = specifiedDir.Remove(0, specifiedDirCount);
Console.WriteLine(specifiedDir.Remove(0, specifiedDirCount));
if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\\"))
{
    specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
    Console.ReadLine();
}

Answer 1

Use '@' at the beginning of your string if you are searching for exactly two slash

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\\"))
{
  specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}

They are called verbatim strings and they are ignoring escape characters.For better explanation you can take a look at here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/362314fe.aspx

But I suspect in here your one slash is escape character

"\\windows"

So you must search for one slash like this:

if (fileNameArrayEdited.StartsWith(@"\"))
{
  specifiedDirCount = specifiedDirCount + 1;
}