<p dir="auto">Autocomplete in the REPL add <code class="notranslate">\</code> when needed to file names but julia1.0 functions do not like them</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm(&quot;a\ a.txt&quot;)
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm("a\ a.txt")
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence
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<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm(&quot;a a.txt&quot;)"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; DelimitedFiles.readdlm("a a.txt")
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<p dir="auto">works</p>
<p dir="auto">Autocompleted paths which include whitespaces lead to an error as the whitespaces are automatically masked with a leading single backslash</p>
<p dir="auto">see also<br>
<a href="https://discourse.julialang.org/t/invalid-escape-sequence/12154/2" rel="nofollow">https://discourse.julialang.org/t/invalid-escape-sequence/12154/2</a></p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="julia&gt; isfile(&quot;c:\\temp\\some folder with whitespace\\x.jl&quot;)
true

julia&gt; include(&quot;C:\\temp\\some\ folder\ with\ whitespace\\x.jl&quot;)
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence

julia&gt; include(&quot;c:\\temp\\some folder with whitespace\\x.jl&quot;)

julia&gt; versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0-beta.0
Commit f41b1ecaec (2018-06-24 01:32 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_BINDIR = C:\Julia-0.7.X\bin\
  JULIA_EDITOR = &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe&quot;
  JULIA_HOME = C:\Julia-0.6.X\bin\

julia&gt;"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">julia&gt; isfile("c:\\temp\\some folder with whitespace\\x.jl")
true

julia&gt; include("C:\\temp\\some\ folder\ with\ whitespace\\x.jl")
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence

julia&gt; include("c:\\temp\\some folder with whitespace\\x.jl")

julia&gt; versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0-beta.0
Commit f41b1ecaec (2018-06-24 01:32 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_BINDIR = C:\Julia-0.7.X\bin\
  JULIA_EDITOR = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
  JULIA_HOME = C:\Julia-0.6.X\bin\

julia&gt;
</code></pre></div>