I am trying to find a prewritten method for converting a string like
this:"Hello World" to this "Hello\sWorld". I plan to use it to build a
regular expression. Specifically I am looking for a method that can convert
not just space (\s) but also any character that needs to be escaped in a
given string.

Thanks,

Matt

ME <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am trying to find a prewritten method for converting a string like
> this:"Hello World" to this "Hello\sWorld". I plan to use it to build a
> regular expression. Specifically I am looking for a method that can convert
> not just space (\s) but also any character that needs to be escaped in a
> given string.

Well, Regex.Escape will convert "Hello World" to "Hello\ World". This
is more exact than "Hello\sWorld" which would match *any* whitespace,
not just space. Is that okay for your purposes?

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Thanks, that will do nicely!

Matt
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> ME <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I am trying to find a prewritten method for converting a string like
>> this:"Hello World" to this "Hello\sWorld". I plan to use it to build a
>> regular expression. Specifically I am looking for a method that can
>> convert
>> not just space (\s) but also any character that needs to be escaped in a
>> given string.
>
> Well, Regex.Escape will convert "Hello World" to "Hello\ World". This
> is more exact than "Hello\sWorld" which would match *any* whitespace,
> not just space. Is that okay for your purposes?
>
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