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As an addendum to @adelphus' answer, you can also use raw string literals to make things a little bit more readable maybe.

myPort = CreateFile(R"(\\.\COM14)",
          GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
          0,    /* exclusive access  */
          NULL, /* no security attrs */
          OPEN_EXISTING,
          0,
          NULL );

Although seeing as CreateFile() is a macro that may resolve to CreateFileW() you may also need to turn this into a wide string

myPort = CreateFile(LR"(\\.\COM14)",
          GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
          0,    /* exclusive access  */
          NULL, /* no security attrs */
          OPEN_EXISTING,
          0,
          NULL );

Applies here because the question is tagged C++ and requires as least C++11. Does not apply to C.

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