It has nothing to do with filepath. It changes the escaping behavior of strings.
In a string literal prefixed with @
the escape sequences starting with \
are disabled. This is convenient for filepaths since \
is the path separator and you don’t want it to start an escape sequence.
In a normal string you would have to escape \
into \\
so your example would look like this “pdf\\”. But since it’s prefixed with @
the only character that needs escaping is "
(which is escaped as ""
) and the \
can simply appear.
This feature is convenient for strings literals containing \
such as filepaths or regexes.
For your simple example the gain isn’t that big, but image you have a full path "C:\\ABC\\CDE\\DEF"
then @"C:\ABC\CDE\DEF"
looks a lot nicer.
For regular expressions it’s almost a must. A regex typically contains several \
escaping other characters already and often becomes almost unreadable if you need to escape them.