In a verbatim string literal (@"foo") in C#, backslashes aren't treated as escapes, so doing \" to get a double quote doesn't work. Is there any way to get a double quote in a verbatim string literal?
This understandably doesn't work:
string foo = @"this \"word\" is escaped";
Use a duplicated double quote.
@"this ""word"" is escaped";
outputs:
this "word" is escaped
Use double quotation marks.
string foo = @"this ""word"" is escaped";
For adding some more information, your example will work without the @
symbol (it prevents escaping with \), this way:
string foo = "this \"word\" is escaped!";
It will work both ways but I prefer the double-quote style for it to be easier working, for example, with filenames (with lots of \ in the string).
This should help clear up any questions you may have: C# literals
Here is a table from the linked content:
Regular literal Verbatim literal Resulting string "Hello" @"Hello" Hello "Backslash: \\" @"Backslash: \" Backslash: \ "Quote: \"" @"Quote: """ Quote: " "CRLF:\r\nPost CRLF" @"CRLF: Post CRLF" CRLF: Post CRLF
{
and }
?
{
or }
. Are you thinking of interpolated string
syntax $
?
As the documentation says:
Simple escape sequences ... are interpreted literally. Only a quote escape sequence ("") is not interpreted literally; it produces one double quotation mark. Additionally, in case of a verbatim interpolated string brace escape sequences ({{ and }}) are not interpreted literally; they produce single brace characters.
interpolated string
syntax $"..."
requires escaping of {
and }
. Regular strings "..."
and verbatim strings @"..."
do not require those to be escaped.
Update: With C# 11 Preview feature - Raw String Literals
string foo1 = """
this "word" is escaped
""";
string foo2 = """this "word" is escaped""";
History:
There is a proposal open in GitHub for the C# language about having better support for raw string literals. One valid answer, is to encourage the C# team to add a new feature to the language (such as triple quote - like Python).
see https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/89#discussioncomment-257343
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$@"this ""{wordVar}"" is escaped";
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