Convert strings to/from C# syntax?

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Michael A. Covington

Is there a built-in way to convert strings to and from their syntactic
representation in C#?

For example, suppose I have a string containing 'a' and a newline character
and 'b'. Is there some built-in way to render this as a string containing
the characters 'a' '\' 'n' 'b' ?

And the inverse?
 
Michael,

Do you mean you want a stirng literal like this:

"a\nb"

Or are you looking for a routine which will take the above literal and
give you the equivalent of:

"a\\nb"

Which when printed will give you "a\nb". If it is the latter, then
AFAIK, the answer is no, you would have to code this yourself.
 
Nicholas Paldino said:
Michael,

Do you mean you want a stirng literal like this:

"a\nb"

Or are you looking for a routine which will take the above literal and
give you the equivalent of:

"a\\nb"

Which when printed will give you "a\nb". If it is the latter, then
AFAIK, the answer is no, you would have to code this yourself.
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The latter. Thanks.
 
Michael,
Do you mean you want a stirng literal like this:

"a\nb"

Or are you looking for a routine which will take the above literal
and give you the equivalent of:

"a\\nb"

Which when printed will give you "a\nb". If it is the latter,
then AFAIK, the answer is no, you would have to code this yourself.
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Well, it is probably much easier to code it yourself, but you could use the
CodeDOM, e.g.

string myString = "a\nb";

CodePrimitiveExpression strExp = new CodePrimitiveExpression(mystring);
CSharpCodeProvider csharpcodeprovider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
StringWriter result = new StringWriter();
csharpcodeprovider.GenerateCodeFromExpression(strExp, result, new CodeGeneratorOptions());
return result.ToString();


Regards
Niels Harremoës
 
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