How to print '\' in C++ without making it look like a escape character

In C++ normal sting literals need Escape characters - cppreference.com[^] in order to insert some special characters into the string.

You can disable them if your compiler supports it using Raw Strings:

cout << R"(Hello "Mike" - C:\myfolder\)";

Will print as

Hello "Mike" - C:\myfolder\

But be aware that this disables all special characters, so you can no longer enter newlines or tabs eitehr.

An additional way is to use escape sequences for printing the backslash.

print("my backslash: %c", 0x5c);