Win 2K an XP registry exports

This probably has something to do with programming, but can anyone explain briefly why when I export a key from the registry, it exports with 2 backslashes (\\) as separators.

Example:
SourcePath=c:\
in the registry exports as

SourcePath= "c:\\"
in the .reg file

Just curious

Thanks

 

Hmmmm. I am curious too. Bumping this back to the top in hopes someone who has an answer will take a look.

 

I can't answer your question either other than to say that it's normal. I've never seen a system where it's not this way. Here's an entry from an exported reg file from mine.

"Location "= "D:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adaptec Shared\\CreateCD "

 

Your guess of it being a programming thing is correct.

The \ is used as a delimiter as seen in the link above

Code:

{
printf( "This is a test\b of how to output a \\, and \ "format\" it\n, cool, eh\?\x21 ");
return 0;
}

Code:

This is a tes of how to output a \, and  "format" it
, cool, eh?!

 

Thanks Joe. Guess I should have known you'd be the one to ask about this.