How do I maintain multiple quotes quoted in a string in c#

Question

So I have this piece of text that I need to be on a string so I can later add to a text file and should be like this string

<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
<requiredRuntime version="v4.0.20506" />
</startup>

I've tried to verbate it like

@"""<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
    <requiredRuntime version="v4.0.20506" />
    </startup>"""

and also tried to work with concatenatio but I can't see to figure out how to include every quote to be on that string.

Possible duplicate of [Can I escape a double quote in a verbatim string literal?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1928909/can-i-escape-a-double-quote-in-a-verbatim-string-literal) — Mephy, Apr 04 '16 at 16:13

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '16 at 16:12

4

Double quotes escape a single quote within @"":

string Text = @"<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=""true"">
    <supportedRuntime version=""v4.0"" sku="".NETFramework,Version=v4.0""/>
    <requiredRuntime version=""v4.0.20506"" />
  </startup>";

answered Apr 04 '16 at 16:12

Alex K.

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I've tried to do it as you mentioned but didnt worked for me. Instead I did as follows: "\r\n\r\n\r\n" – Mr.Toxy Apr 05 '16 at 10:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '16 at 16:18

Handy tool here http://www.freeformatter.com/java-dotnet-escape.html

Input the string and it will escape it for you.

"<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=\"true\">\r\n    <supportedRuntime version=\"v4.0\" sku=\".NETFramework,Version=v4.0\"/>\r\n    <requiredRuntime version=\"v4.0.20506\" />\r\n  </startup>"

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '16 at 16:20

private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string value =
                @"<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=""true""> <supportedRuntime version=""v4.0"" sku="".NETFramework,Version=v4.0""/>
                 <requiredRuntime version=""v4.0.20506"" /></startup>";
            Console.WriteLine(value);
            Console.Read();
        }

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 04 '16 at 16:22

You can preface the initial double-quote of a string with the '@' character to handle escaping it :

var startupTag = @"<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=""true"">
                           <supportedRuntime version=""v4.0"" sku="".NETFramework,Version=v4.0""/>
                           <requiredRuntime version=""v4.0.20506"" />
                   </startup>";

You can see a live example of this here.

How do I maintain multiple quotes quoted in a string in c#

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