title: Error on Colon When Using fstream
body: <p>I'm trying to use fstream and fout in C++ to export text to a file. It was about done, but when I tried to run it, it gives me errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1&gt;c:\users\student\desktop\jackc     c++\pluginmaker\pluginmaker\pluginmaker.cpp(100): warning C4129: ':' : unrecognized character escape sequence
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I fix this?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edited by moderator to add:</strong></p>
  
  <p>This is the code, the last line is the one throwing the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ofstream fout; 
  fout.open("plugin.txt");
  fout&lt;&lt;"description\: " &lt;&lt; plugindesc &lt;&lt; "\n"; 
  </code></pre>