[Resolved] Store HTML code as string?

[hipopony66]

Is there a more efficient way of doing this than adding &""""& for every double quotation mark in the html code when building the string? I need to store the HTML code as a string. I am finding "[tablerow]" within an existing document with StreamReader and want to replace it with my string value (html code) when writing it back using stringwriter.

[Negative0]

If you do two quotes "" inside of a quote, then it will read that as a single quote to be put in the quotes. Example:

        Dim s As String
        s = String.Format("""{0}""", "somevalue")

        MessageBox.Show(s)

[hipopony66]

Hmmm. It still does not appear to like that. I am dealing with multiple HTML properties in the string, so there are lots of ""'s. Here's what I've got now:

  strRowToAdd = (String.Format("""{0}""", "<tr><td width="16%"><div align="center" class="style4">[procedure]</div></td><td width="16%"><div align="center" class="style4">[date]</div></td><td width="16%"><div align="center" class="style4">[surgeon]</div></td><td width="16%"><div align="center" class="style4">[surgphone]</div></td><td width="16%"><div align="center" class="style4">[facility]</div></td><td width="20%"><div align="center" class="style4">[postop]</div></td></tr>"))

Thanks for any suggestions. This appears to be fairly tricky.

[hipopony66]

I ran across this article, but am still a little confused regarding the syntax:

http://www.camelsquadron.com/forums/...?a=topic&t=173

[Negative0]

If you are just building a large string with no replacement values, then forget about String.Format. Inside your string, replace every double quote with two doublequotes.

"<tr><td width=""16%""><div align=""center"" ...

[hipopony66]

Thanks Negative0, I got things working........all the double quotes had me cross-eyed!