Tony,

You may already figured out (but I don't think that it's in the documentation) that backslash is a special character in strings. There are, I believe, fivespecial sequences that are recognised by Phrogram (and many other programming languages like C, C++, Java, C# ...). These are:

• \n - represents a 'newline' character
  
• \r - represents a 'carriage return' character
  
• \t - represetns a 'tab' character
  
• \" - represents a double-quote character (doesn't terminate the string)
  
• \\ - represents a (single) backslash character
  

 It's actually only the IDE itself that seems to have a problem, not the compiler. That problem is with handling a double backslash before the end of the string. So the following program:
 

Program Test

      Method Main()
            PrintLine("\\")
            PrintLine("\\ Hello")
            PrintLine("\"")
      End Method

 End Program

looks wrong, but does actually run and outputs:

\
\ Hello
"

as it should. Now, until the IDE is fixed, there is a workaround you can use to fool it into highlighting the syntax correctly, like this:

Program Test     

      Method Main()
            PrintLine("\\")
            // Fool IDE into closing string and method -- ")
            PrintLine("\\ Hello")
            PrintLine("\"")
      End Method

End Program

If you put the "special" comment containing ") after the offending line you can persuade the IDE to get the rest of the formatting correct.

One final thing. If the reason that you have the sequence \\ at the end of a string is that you're trying to deal with file pathnames, a very easy workaround is to use '/' instead of '\' as the path delimiter. Windows accepts either.

Neil