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Poul Bak
Poul Bak

Reputation: 10940

Can I put control characters in an @-quoted string?

Ok, this question is purely out of curiosity, since I know the alernative way of doing it. I know that I can put control characters in a 'normal' string by escaping the control character like this:

string myString = "abcd\nef\"gh";

However, I'm thinking of the verbatim c# @ quoted string format. I know that I can include quotes by doubling them, but what about control characters?

This doesn't work:

string myString = @"abcd\nef""gh";

It produces 2 characters where the control character should be and will effectively be the same as:

string myString ="abcd\\nef\"gh";

Is there another way to include control characters in a verbatim @ quoted string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (2)

adv12
adv12

Reputation: 8551

According to Microsoft:

In a verbatim string literal, the characters between the delimiters are interpreted verbatim, the only exception being a quote-escape-sequence.

So no, there is no way to include control characters in a verbatim @-quoted string other than to include them verbatim.

Upvotes: 2

Poul Bak
Poul Bak

Reputation: 10940

Ok, I have found out that I can actually include a tab or newline simply by indenting or placing on a new line, like this:

string myString = @"abcd
ef""gh";

Now the newline is included ib the string. Tab and newline is probably the only control characters I will need.

Upvotes: 0

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