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JonnyBravoJr
JonnyBravoJr

Reputation: 338

Inserting quote into string produces two quotes

I want to include a " symbol within a string. So first I just included a double quote like this:

Dim strRequest As String = "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>

But that produced a double quote in the string which I did not expect at all. 

<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>

So I went so far as to do this:

Dim strRequest As String = "<?xml version="
strRequest &= Chr(34)
strRequest &= "1.0"

But I'm still getting double quotes. Any ideas on why this might be happening?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (2)

Enigmativity
Enigmativity

Reputation: 117029

I've run this code:

Dim strRequest As String = "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>"
Console.WriteLine(strRequest)

I get this result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

How do you know you still get the ""?

I don't know why you don't do this:

Dim xml = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<root>
    <data>Hello, this is some "quoted" text</data>
</root>

That directly gives me a XDocument object with all of the quotes working fine.

Upvotes: 1

Xavier Pe&#241;a
Xavier Pe&#241;a

Reputation: 7899

My guess is that Visual Studio makes things a bit confusing for you:

On one hand, in debug mode (when hovering the variable) it is showing you this string: "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>".

On the other hand, and what it really holds internally as a value is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> (which is your desired result).

To test it: if instead of just hovering strRequest you use the Text Visualizer (the magnifying glass icon) you will see the desired result: <?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8 ?>.

Upvotes: 1

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