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Escaping a { into a format string

Pretty simple question here.

If I do a format and I want to incluide a { or a } how do I go about it. It
seems you can't eacape it with a backslash.

Sofar all I have done is string.Format("{0}","{"); Is there a better way?

Thanks
Ralph


Nov 13 '05 #1
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A <aa********@onyxREMfund.com> wrote:
If I do a format and I want to incluide a { or a } how do I go about it.

It
seems you can't eacape it with a backslash.


You can also do:
string s = @"{0}";


That won't help. The @ only makes a difference at compile-time, and the
compiler doesn't care about { or } in a string.

For instance:

Console.WriteLine ("{0}", 1);
is the same as
Console.WriteLine (@"{0}", 1);

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