The "\" combined with whatever character follows it is an escape character.

But \U is not a valid escape character. \n is valid. It's a newline character. \t is a tab.

Since \ always tries to combine with the next character, how do you represent a \ if you want a slash?

You use 2 slashes. So, change every slash into 2 slashes.

I did that but now can I get this: Error: Could not find or load main class files.Files

Want to scan a text file in my Java script. Following a youtube video. But for some reason it keeps saying illegal escape character. And adds \ making it C:\\ instead of C:\

package Files;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Files {



public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException{

Scanner scan = new Scanner (new File("?C:\Users\Jaap\Desktop\File.txt"));







while(scan.hasNextLine())

System.out.println(scan.nextLine ());

}

}