removing escape character from a C# string

[Guest]

Hello everyone,



I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg". I
tried indexof, that didn't work.

string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

int y = x.Indexof("\\",0)



y returned -1

I cannot use substring because the name can change. It can be water Lillies
or something else or lengthier name.

 

[Pete]

Hello everyone,



I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is
the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg". I
tried indexof, that didn't work.

string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

This works for me:

 

[Pete]

sorry..

This works:

string x = "\"water lillies\"";

string x = x.Replace("\"","");

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pete.

sorry..

This works:

string x = "\"water lillies\"";

string x = x.Replace("\"","");

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg".

And that *is* what you've got. I believe the problem is that you're
looking at the string in the debugger, which is escaping the string for
you. Try printing it out (eg with Console.WriteLine) to see the actual
value.