Escaped string in C#

[Oxns]

Hi,

Can anyone point me at the class to convert a string so that it displays
escaped chars as \r, \n etc. please

Its done in the 2005 debugger so I hope its available as a class ??.

Thanks

Graham

[steve813]

Graham,

Put an @ in front of the string, example:

string myString = @"\r\n";

Steve

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[Oxns]

Steve,

Thanks for the vary quick reply :-).

This is the wrong way round however - I already have my string with embedded
control characters - and simply want to display this - with control chars
'shown as escaped (eg \r\n etc.).

Thanks

G.

"steve813" <st******@gmail .com> wrote in message
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Graham,

Put an @ in front of the string, example:

string myString = @"\r\n";

Steve

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[Tom Porterfield]

Oxns wrote:

Steve,

Thanks for the vary quick reply :-).

This is the wrong way round however - I already have my string with embedded
control characters - and simply want to display this - with control chars
'shown as escaped (eg \r\n etc.).

string s1 = "\r\n";
string s2 = System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex.Escape(s 1);
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[Peter Rilling]

Are you simply saying that you want to convert the control characters to
"text" that represents the characters.

If so, you might do something like myString.Replac e("\r\n", @"\r\n");

"Oxns" <ox**@community .nospam> wrote in message
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Steve,

Thanks for the vary quick reply :-).

This is the wrong way round however - I already have my string with
embedded control characters - and simply want to display this - with
control chars 'shown as escaped (eg \r\n etc.).

Thanks

G.

"steve813" <st******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

Graham,

Put an @ in front of the string, example:

string myString = @"\r\n";

Steve

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Oxns <ox**@community .nospam> wrote:

Can anyone point me at the class to convert a string so that it displays
escaped chars as \r, \n etc. please

Its done in the 2005 debugger so I hope its available as a class ??.

Not that I know of, but it's very easy to do. Just run through a series
of replacements;

string replaced = original.Replac e ("\\", "\\\\")
.Replace ("\r", "\\r")
.Replace ("\n", "\\n")
.Replace ("\'", "\\\'")
.Replace ("\"", "\\\")

(etc)

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/faq/#escapes for the complete
list.

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[Oxns]

Effectively yes - but for all escaped characters. I can do this the hard way
but assumed/hoped that there was a framework method somewhere which would do
this for me :-O.

Thanks

G.

"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.r illing.net> wrote in message
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Are you simply saying that you want to convert the control characters to
"text" that represents the characters.

If so, you might do something like myString.Replac e("\r\n", @"\r\n");

"Oxns" <ox**@community .nospam> wrote in message
news:eU******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...

Steve,

Thanks for the vary quick reply :-).

This is the wrong way round however - I already have my string with
embedded control characters - and simply want to display this - with
control chars 'shown as escaped (eg \r\n etc.).

Thanks

G.

"steve813" <st******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

Graham,

Put an @ in front of the string, example:

string myString = @"\r\n";

Steve

[Oxns]

Tom,

Yes - I had a look at this but doesn't it only translate regex chars - and
not all string escaped chars ??.

Looks like I'll just do it the hard way - as ever ;-)).

G.

"Tom Porterfield" <tp******@mvps. org> wrote in message
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Oxns wrote:

Steve,

Thanks for the vary quick reply :-).

This is the wrong way round however - I already have my string with
embedded control characters - and simply want to display this - with
control chars 'shown as escaped (eg \r\n etc.).

string s1 = "\r\n";
string s2 = System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex.Escape(s 1);
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