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Calibre2010
Calibre2010

Reputation: 3849

What's the format for a string with a forward slash in C#?

I'm using an HtmlHelper where I give table data id's based on day and month values which are retrieved. The problem is the id is not recognized in the format it's in. '/' seems to not be picked up yet when I replace '/' with '-' it works. 

daysRow.AppendFormat("<td id='{0}/{1}'>{0}</td>", day, d1.Month.ToString());

Can anyone tell me how to format this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 13169

Answers (4)

John Nicholas
John Nicholas

Reputation: 4836

Use // iirc

alternativley i think putting @ in front of your string will make it be tret as a literal.

eg 

string s = @"\w\e\r\ty";

or 

string s = "d\\d";

what you need to use is the string literal

'& # 4 7 ;' without the spaces

instead of the forward slash

Upvotes: -4

BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft

Reputation: 86023

You cannot use / for ids in html. See here.

Upvotes: 2

Mauro
Mauro

Reputation: 4511

I think you are using an invalid character, certainly according to this SO question it appears that you cant use forward slashes.

Upvotes: 0

casperOne
casperOne

Reputation: 74530

The problem is not with C#, but rather, with your using a '/' character in HTML. From the section of the HTML 4.0 spec on the id attribute:

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

The '/' violates that rule, which is why you are seeing issues when using that, but not the '-' character.

Upvotes: 14

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