How to replace escaped strings?

[Brett]

I've been trying different methods for replacing escaped strings. None
work. I even have a custom Replace() method but still can't get what I
need. Some of the characters I need to replace are:
\r\n with nothing
\" with only single quote.

myString = myString.Replac e(@"\"", @""");

Replace(myStrin g, @"\"", @""");
gives this error:
No overload for method 'Replace' takes '2' arguments

or
Replace(myStrin g, @"\\""", @""""));
which doesn't work
//Replace function that I'm using
public static String Replace(String strText,String strFind,String
strReplace)
{
int iPos=strText.In dexOf(strFind);
String strReturn="";
while(iPos!=-1)
{
strReturn+=strT ext.Substring(0 ,iPos) + strReplace;
strText=strText .Substring(iPos +strFind.Length );
iPos=strText.In dexOf(strFind);
}
if(strText.Leng th>0)
strReturn+=strT ext;
return strReturn;
}

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brett

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Brett <[e-mail]> wrote:

I've been trying different methods for replacing escaped strings. None
work. I even have a custom Replace() method but still can't get what I
need. Some of the characters I need to replace are:
\r\n with nothing
\" with only single quote.

myString = myString.Replac e(@"\"", @""");

You don't want those to be verbatim string literals, due to the quote

myString = myString.Replac e ("\\\"", "\"");

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[Brett]

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Brett <[e-mail]> wrote:

I've been trying different methods for replacing escaped strings. None
work. I even have a custom Replace() method but still can't get what I
need. Some of the characters I need to replace are:
\r\n with nothing
\" with only single quote.

myString = myString.Replac e(@"\"", @""");

You don't want those to be verbatim string literals, due to the quote

myString = myString.Replac e ("\\\"", "\"");

That isn't working. The before and after strings are the same. Here's an
example of the original string:

<A href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">

I want to eliminate the \ in the above.

Thanks,
Brett

[Brett]

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> wrote in message
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Brett <[e-mail]> wrote:

I've been trying different methods for replacing escaped strings. None
work. I even have a custom Replace() method but still can't get what I
need. Some of the characters I need to replace are:
\r\n with nothing
\" with only single quote.

myString = myString.Replac e(@"\"", @""");

You don't want those to be verbatim string literals, due to the quote

myString = myString.Replac e ("\\\"", "\"");

That isn't working. The before and after strings are the same. Here's an
example of the original string:

<A href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">

I want to eliminate the \ in the above.

Thanks,
Brett

A little additional info.

string mytest = "<A
href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">" ;
string _mytest = mytest.Replace( "\\\"", "--");

When I walk through this code to the closing method brace, here's what I get
in the watch window:

_mytest error: identifier '_mytest' out of scope
mytest.Replace( "\\\"", "--") error: 'mytest.Replace ' does not exist
mytest "<A href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">"
string

No errors. Any idea why that is going on?

[Bill Butler]

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<A href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">

I want to eliminate the \ in the above.

assuming you mean something like this
string str = "<A
href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">" ;

There IS NO '\' in the string

The \" that you see in the string declaration is stored as an " in the
actual string
if you do
Console.WriteLi ne("{0}", str);
you get
<A href="http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm">

Hopefully this is what you mean

Bill

[Brett]

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<A href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">

I want to eliminate the \ in the above.

assuming you mean something like this
string str = "<A
href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">" ;

There IS NO '\' in the string

The \" that you see in the string declaration is stored as an " in the
actual string
if you do
Console.WriteLi ne("{0}", str);
you get
<A href="http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm">

Hopefully this is what you mean

Bill

You're so right. Thanks for clearing it up.

Brett

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Brett <[e-mail]> wrote:

A little additional info.

string mytest = "<A
href=\"http://dslstart.verizo n.net/vzn.dsl/dog/advance.htm\">" ;
string _mytest = mytest.Replace( "\\\"", "--");
There's no backslash in the string above. There is in the source code,
but not in the actual string.
When I walk through this code to the closing method brace, here's what I get
in the watch window:

That's not showing you the actual string - it's escaping it for you,
somewhat unhelpfullly.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/s....html#debugger

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