Watch out for escape characters.

You have to be aware of the escape characters when you parse a file  character by character.  For instance if you try to read a file that contains “C:\bigFile.txt” you’ll get back “C:igFile.txt” or something like this.

If you don’t believe me, try it yourselves.

   1: public void ParseString()

   2: {

   3:     string text = "C:\bigFile.txt";

   4:     string newText = string.Empty;

   5:     foreach (char c in text)

   6:     {

   7:         newText += c;

   8:     }

   9:     Console.WriteLine(newText);

  10: }

Below I provided a table of escape character for you and myself to reference later.

Char	ASCII Dec#	ASCII Hex#	ASCII Name	Ctrl Char	Description
	00	00	NUL	^@	null
\a	07	07	BEL	^G	Alert
\b	08	08	BS	^H	Backspace
\f	12	0C	FF	^L	Form feed
\n	10	0A	LF	^J	New line
\r	13	0D	CR	^M	Carriage return
\t	09	09	HT	^I	Horizontal tab
\v	11	0B	VT	^K	Vertical tab
\”	34	22	N/A	N/A	Double quote
\’	39	27	N/A	N/A	Single quote
\\	92	5C	NA	N/A	Backslash
\u####	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Unicode escape
\x##	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Unicode escape
\Uxxxxxx	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Unicode escape

Let me know if I miss anything.

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