string

hi!
I am coding in c#

I have to put "abcd" in a string variable. Had it been abcd only I would have written

Code:

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string str = "abcd";

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str then wud have contained abcd.

but the problem is str has to contain "abcd".

Hope, I am clear in my post.

like this ...

VB Code:

[COLOR=Blue]string[/COLOR] str = @"""abcd"""; 
    Console.WriteLine(str); 
            
[COLOR=Green]    // outputs "abcd"  ( including the " )
    // if you want the . at the end ... string str = @"""abcd""."; [/COLOR]

hope it helps :wave:

In C# you can escape any single character with a '\' character so you could use

string str = "\"abcd\"";

Preceeding a string with an '@' character tells the compiler to take the entire string as literal. That means that @"\n" is not a new-line character but actually a string that contains the characters '\' and 'n'. In the case of double quotes, as dynamic_sysop shows, you still have to escape them with another double quote to show that they are not a string delimiter.

Thanks a bunch.