System setProperty String String is showing System is not applicable for the arguments

Question

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\Users\Sradha\Downloads\chromedriver.exe");

This is not accepting the above string. Can someone help?

Answer 1

You are correct that it requires (String,String) the one that you have provided, / is considered as escape character. When you provide the path it contains / but in order for program to understand you must use //. 

Hence, instead of writing 

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\Users\Sradha\Downloads\chromedriver.exe");

if you use 

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\Sradha\\Downloads\\chromedriver.exe");

This will work fine.