How to work with verbatim string literals?

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How to work with verbatim string literals?

captain power 0

When I try to define a verbatim string literal, escaped double quotes ("") are turned to \" in the real string and I cannot use mystring.replace("\"","""") to turn \" to ".

مبروكة فؤاد بيبي محمد الزنياني 0 Reputation points

2023-05-29T22:20:14.8766667+00:00

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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2023-05-30T05:18:56.3666667+00:00

Maybe the real string contains ", not \".

The \" is usually displayed by Debugger.
Anonymous

2023-05-30T07:16:59.65+00:00

Hi @captain power , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A. You should pay attention to what the actual characters are.
captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-30T07:36:44.5766667+00:00
My string is defined like this:

var mystring = ".....'.....""......"".....'"

which appears in the direct window like this:

.....'.....\"......\".....'

but I need to pass the string to my function like this:

.....'....."......".....'
Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2023-05-30T08:29:05.51+00:00

If the real string is ..."..., then the Debugger shows "...\"..." according to C# rules. The real string does not contain \. To view the text, you can type s,nq to Watch or Imediate windows, where s is the variable.

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مبروكة فؤاد بيبي محمد الزنياني 0 Reputation points

2023-05-29T22:20:14.8766667+00:00

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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2023-05-30T05:18:56.3666667+00:00

Maybe the real string contains ", not \".

The \" is usually displayed by Debugger.
Anonymous

2023-05-30T07:16:59.65+00:00

Hi @captain power , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A. You should pay attention to what the actual characters are.
captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-30T07:36:44.5766667+00:00

My string is defined like this:

var mystring = ".....'.....""......"".....'"

which appears in the direct window like this:

.....'.....\"......\".....'

but I need to pass the string to my function like this:

.....'....."......".....'
Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2023-05-30T08:29:05.51+00:00

If the real string is ..."..., then the Debugger shows "...\"..." according to C# rules. The real string does not contain \. To view the text, you can type s,nq to Watch or Imediate windows, where s is the variable.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Karen Payne MVP 35,586 Volunteer Moderator

If I read John "Henry" Adams from a text file using

var result = File.ReadAllText("textfile1.txt").Replace("\"", "\\\"");
Debug.WriteLine(result);

We get John \"Henry\" Adams

Unsure if this is what you want, you need to provide a reproducible example.

captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T11:30:18.85+00:00
I need to create a string that looks like this:

some text 'some text in single quotes "some text in double quotes" some text in single quotes' some text

I try to define the above like this

mystring=@"some text 'some text in single quotes ""some text in double quotes"" some text in single quotes' some text"

but what I get is this:

some text 'some text in single quotes \"some text in double quotes\" some text in single quotes' some text

Using something like this

mystring= mystring.Replace("\\", string.Empty); or this mystring= mystring.Replace("\\\\", string.Empty);

doesn't help. The \ remains in the string.

Answer 3

Anonymous

Hi @captain power , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

From your updated info, it looks like you don't need to use replace.

You just need to use @ correctly to accomplish your needs.

var mystring = @".....'.....""......"".....'";
Console.WriteLine(mystring);

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Best Regards,

Jiale

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captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-30T20:56:42.09+00:00

Thanks for your answers but none of it really works.

The code Console.WriteLine(mystring); gives back the string as I need it but Console.ReadLine(); causes a crash (the code just stops being executed at this line).

Console.WriteLine() seems to include some kind of transformation that eliminates all \ in the string.
Anonymous

2023-05-31T01:14:34.7333333+00:00

Hi @captain power ,

I added Console.ReadLine();, just to pause the program for results and screenshots. This is a common way to pause in C#. In your usage you need to remove this line.If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".
captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T08:23:24.25+00:00

How would I get the output of Console.WriteLine(mystring); into a variable?
Anonymous

2023-05-31T08:30:04+00:00

Hi @captain power , Isn't mystring a variable? This just prints out the effect for you to show. You can use mystring directly.
captain power 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T08:55:55.08+00:00
mystring and Console.WriteLine(mystring); is not the same. I would need something like

mystring = Console.WriteLine(mystring);

but this is not applicable.
Anonymous

2023-06-01T01:26:39.24+00:00

Hi @captain power , Why are you using mystring = Console.WriteLine(mystring);. Isn't mystring the string you want? Where do you need to transfer it? Console.Writeline is to output the string to the console. If you want to pass it to other strings you can use var myString=mystring.

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