How do I replace a hash sign with the escaped one?

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I'm writing a helper for job applications. There it could be, that the jobtitle is "Softwaredeveloper C#". But for generating the job application, i use LaTEX in background. But it fails by managing that string and needs a "\#".

I tried the code below. But it doesn't work. As written there it should work.

Have i missed a thing?

What I have tried:

_prepare.Replace(@"#", @"\#");

_prepare.Replace(@"#", @"\\#");

_prepare.Replace("#", "\#");

_prepare.Replace("#", "\\#");

Posted 24-Sep-20 4:51am

Sascha Manns

Updated 24-Sep-20 5:04am

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Solution 1

We can't tell - we have no idea what you are doign with the text once you have called Replace.

So, it's going to be up to you.
Fortunately, you have a tool available to you which will help you find out what is going on: the debugger. If you don't know how to use it then a quick Google for "Visual Studio debugger" should give you the info you need.

Put a breakpoint on the first line in the function, and run your code through the debugger. Then look at your code, and at your data and work out what should happen manually. Then single step each line checking that what you expected to happen is exactly what did. When it isn't, that's when you have a problem, and you can back-track (or run it again and look more closely) to find out why.

Sorry, but we can't do that for you - time for you to learn a new (and very, very useful) skill: debugging!

Posted 24-Sep-20 4:59am

OriginalGriff

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F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-24T05:05:00

Solution 2

string.Replace returns a new string with the text replaced, it doesn't update the string you call it on. So you need;

_prepare = _prepare.Replace(@"#", @"\#");

String.Replace Method (System) | Microsoft Docs[^]

Posted 24-Sep-20 5:05am

F-ES Sitecore

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Sascha Manns 24-Sep-20 11:19am

Thank you very much. That was the problem :-)