Character constant ignore

I need to compare variable value with backslash symbol:

char symbol;
/* assigning a value to
a variable */
if (symbol == '\') {
    // some action
}

But my Visual Studio recognizes it as a character constant. How can I ignore it?

Maybe there is a "r" prefix like in python:

symbol = r'\'

>Solution :

You can use double slashes (\\) or use raw string literals to avoid escaping backslashes.

char symbol;
if (symbol == '\\') {
    // some action
}

or

char symbol;
if (symbol == R"\") {
    // some action
}