C# escape character for "

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Hi Newsgroupies,

Please could someone tell me the escape character for " (double quote)
in a string.Format(...) method as \x22 doesn't work as it comes out as
\" in the result.

i.e. string.Format("you say \x22goodbye\x22 and I say \x22hello\x22");

....comes out as...

you say \"goodbye\" and I say \"hello\"


Many thanks,

Newsgroupie, UK
 
newsgroupie said:
Please could someone tell me the escape character for " (double quote)
in a string.Format(...) method as \x22 doesn't work as it comes out as
\" in the result.

i.e. string.Format("you say \x22goodbye\x22 and I say \x22hello\x22");

...comes out as...

you say \"goodbye\" and I say \"hello\"
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No it doesn't. It may look that way in the debugger, but that's just
the debugger fooling you. (It's attempting to help you, and failing
dismally.)

Try the following:

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine ("you say \x22goodbye\x22 and I say \x22hello\x22");
}
}

(Line outdented just to get it in easily :)

Note that you can also use \", eg

Console.WriteLine ("you say \x22goodbye\" and I say \"hello\"");
 
The problem was that the watch window shows the escape character but
when you send the string to the output window the escape character is
not shown
 
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