title: Unrecognized escape sequence in C#
body: <p>I have strings like this in my database : </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"\12 stack"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"\11 stack + \12 overflow"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>When I try to parse and process those strings I get this  for each "\" character:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unrecognized escape sequence</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I know when I add "@" character before the string, the problem is solved.
  For example : </p>
  
  <pre><code>string mystring = @"\11 stack + \12 overflow";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But how can I do that programmatically when I retrieve such strings? Or is there any other workaround? Thanks.</p>