Strings In C Sharp using Visual Studio 2010

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Hi all.

I am using Visual Studio 2010. Is there a way, while using Visual Studio 2010, that you can surround text spanning multiple lines with double quotes to mark it as a string? E.g.

My name

is Charles

and i am a programmer

instead of doing it manually by putting double quotes at the beginning and at the end and using '+' to join them?

Posted 9-Sep-12 5:30am

Wamuti

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[no name] 9-Sep-12 11:37am

Why don't you use string.Format()?

Wamuti 9-Sep-12 11:47am

That would be okay,but if i used .Format("",), i'd still have to flag string manually by using double quotes. :-)

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BillW33 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-10T04:11:00

Solution 3

You can add double quotes or other special characters by “escaping” them. For example:

C#

string escapedStr = "\"First line\nSecond line\"";

See this site[^] for a list of available escape characters.

As Mattias said you can simply prepend “@” to your string, however you need to be aware that it has some other effects; it causes escape characters to be treated as literals. See this article[^] for more details.

Posted 10-Sep-12 4:11am

BillW33

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Kenneth Haugland 10-Sep-12 10:30am

You cant use "@" in vb, so I guess It would help thouse guys anyway :)

BillW33 10-Sep-12 13:24pm

That may be, but the OP's question is tagged for C# so it should work for him. :)

Mattias Högström · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-09T05:47:00

Solution 1

oh, yes. Like this.

const string mystr = @"
Hello
World";

Posted 9-Sep-12 5:47am

Mattias Högström

Updated 9-Sep-12 9:48am

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Wamuti 9-Sep-12 11:51am

Hahaha. Thanks!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!!!!! I am so happy :-)

Thomas Daniels · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-09T06:03:00

Solution 2

You can use something like this:

C#

string str = "First line.\nSecond line";

The \n char is the escape sequence for a new line.

Posted 9-Sep-12 6:03am

Thomas Daniels