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Piotrek
Piotrek

Reputation: 11221

Creating snippets with quotation marks inside

I have some code with quotation marks that I want to use as a snippet. Unfortunately, JSON requires me to use them in "body" array in my settings. I tried to use different types of quotation marks, but Visual Studio highlights it in red: enter image description here

What can I do to include quotation marks in my snippet?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 13848

Answers (7)

aghwotu
aghwotu

Reputation: 429

Using @Wosi 's answer to create a snippet that creates a snippet template.

We covert this:


    "snip": {
        "prefix": "snip",
        "body": [
            ""
        ],
        "description": "Template to create a new snippet"
    },

INTO:

    "snip": {
        "prefix": "snip",
        "body": [
            "\"$1\": { "
            "   \"prefix\": \"$1\",   "
            "  \"body\": [   "
            "   \"$2\"   "
            "  ],  "
            "  \"description\": \"$3\"  "
            "},   "
        ],
        "description": "Template to create a new snippet"
    },

Upvotes: 0

ChipnCharge
ChipnCharge

Reputation: 538

Maybe this will help someone, I found that I getting an "invalid escape character" message but the problem was with a path rather than the double quotes themselves. Here's what I ended up doing and it works fine.

"body": "<cfdump var=\"#arguments#\" output=\"C:\\webmx\\www\\myDump.html\" format=\"html\">",

Upvotes: 0

Sebastien
Sebastien

Reputation: 1102

I don't know if you used tabs in your real snippet, but if yes, this answer fixed my issue.
You can replace tabs characters by spaces, or maybe use \t instead.

Upvotes: 0

Sau001
Sau001

Reputation: 1664

My environment is Visual Studio 2022.

I wanted to create a snippet that produces the following line of code:

_logger.LogInformation($"")

The following worked for me

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
    <Header>
      <Title>logger information</Title>
      <Shortcut>loginfo</Shortcut>
    </Header>
    <Snippet>
      <Code Language="CSharp">
        <![CDATA[_logger.LogInformation($$" ");]]>
      </Code>
      <Imports>
        <Import>
         
        </Import>
      </Imports>
    </Snippet>
  </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

Upvotes: 0

coder_sushant
coder_sushant

Reputation: 19

Use can simply use \ (backward slash) if you want to use double quotes or any other thing in json

Example :

"print statement":{
    "prefix": "print",
    "body": "print(\"$1\")",
    "description": "print anything in python"
}

Upvotes: 1

Kim Steinhaug
Kim Steinhaug

Reputation: 502

I was hoping there was a online converter available for this purpose to convert the code to correctly encoded code, but seems noone did that as of yet...

Remember that json also needs escaping with \ so you might have to \ for it to work correctly, an example from #42669459 has this sollution:

What to encode: ${code}

Sollution: 

"Return Code With Squirly And Dollar": {
    "prefix": "code_snippet",
    "body" : [
        "\\${code\\}"
    ],
    "description": "Code Snippet"
}

Upvotes: 0

Wosi
Wosi

Reputation: 45243

Use \ to escape the double quotes. A sample snippet looks like this:

"My quoted snippet": {
    "prefix": "quot",
    "body": [
        "Hello \"User\""
    ],
    "description": "Print snippets with quotes"
}

When you execute this snippet it will print: Hello "User"

Upvotes: 41

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