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Apoorv
Apoorv

Reputation: 2043

Equivalent C# code for the VB counterpart

I was converting some VB code to C#. I have these 2 statements with me currently written in VB

Dim LineSeparator As Char = Convert.ToChar(10)
        Dim DataSeparator As Char = Convert.ToChar(";")

I checked the value in Watch Window and could see something like this

Name            Value   Type        

LineSeparator   ""c     Char

DataSeparator   ";"c    Char

I wrote similar C# statements 

char LineSeparator = Convert.ToChar(10);
char DataSeparator = Convert.ToChar(";");

but the watch shows a different result. Something Like this

LineSeparator   10 '\n' char


DataSeparator   59 ';'  char

What Wrong I am doing here? Do i need to put Single Quotes around the parameters?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 161

Answers (1)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 216293

No the results are correct, it is only a difference in the way used by the debug window to show certain constant values between C# and VB.NET

The character with code 10 is the LineFeed character (a non printable one) and the debugger in VB don't show anything between the double quotes (but the character is there). In the C# debugger these non printable characters are represented by the escape prefix (\) follwed by one letter defined for some of them.

For the semicolon instead, the problem is that VB.NET use the same quoting both for a single character and for strings. Thus they added the letter "c" to show that this is a char value and not a string. Instead C# uses the single quote around character constants

Upvotes: 1

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