Why My path in Javscript isn't working as expected?-CodePudding

My path isn't working very well, instead of searching "C:\Users\emanu\OneDrive\Desktop\telegramBOT\data.json" it search "C:UsersemanuOneDriveDesktop elegramBOTdata.json" this is my code (hope it will help):

const editJsonFile = require("edit-json-file");

// If the file doesn't exist, the content will be an empty object by default.
let file = editJsonFile("C:\Users\emanu\OneDrive\Desktop\telegramBOT\data.json");

The path that i am trying to use is a real working path to a json file, i am struggling with this problem...

I tried searching evrywhere but i can't figure it out how to resolve this. This is the error message that the console gives me:

{}
Uncaught Error Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:UsersemanuOneDriveDesktop  elegramBOTdata.json'
    at openSync (fs:600:3)
    at writeFileSync (fs:2221:35)
    at write (c:\Users\emanu\node_modules\edit-json-file\lib\index.js:207:20)
    at save (c:\Users\emanu\node_modules\edit-json-file\lib\index.js:241:18)
    at <anonymous> (c:\Users\emanu\OneDrive\Desktop\telegramBOT\test.js:33:6)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1213:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1037:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader:878:12)
    at executeUserEntryPoint (internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at <anonymous> (internal/main/run_main_module:23:47)

CodePudding user response：

\ Indicates that the following character should be treated specially, or "escaped". It behaves one of two ways.

For characters that are usually treated literally, indicates that the next character is special and not to be interpreted literally. For example, /b/ matches the character "b". By placing a backslash in front of "b", that is by using /\b/, the character becomes special to mean match a word boundary.
For characters that are usually treated specially, indicates that the next character is not special and should be interpreted literally. For example, "*" is a special character that means 0 or more occurrences of the preceding character should be matched; for example, /a*/ means match 0 or more "a"s. To match * literally, precede it with a backslash; for example, /a\*/ matches "a*"

To match this character literally, escape it with itself. In other words to search for \ use /\\/.

source MDN

In your case replace

let file = editJsonFile("C:\Users\emanu\OneDrive\Desktop\telegramBOT\data.json");

with

let file = editJsonFile("C:\\Users\\emanu\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\telegramBOT\\data.json");