How can I get this statement to work: string strData = '\xB';

[Max Adams]

How can I get this statement to work:
string strData = '\xB';

I get the error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'string'.
Can anyone help?

PT

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Max Adams <ru************@hotmail.com> wrote:

How can I get this statement to work:
string strData = '\xB';

I get the error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'string'.
Can anyone help?

Sure:

string strData = "\xB";

'' is used for specifying a single character.
"" is used for specifying a string.

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[Max Adams]

How can I get this statement to work:
string strData = '\xB';

I get the error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'string'.
Can anyone help?

Sure:

string strData = "\xB";

'' is used for specifying a single character.
"" is used for specifying a string.

And that will give me the code for the ASCII character <VT>??

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Max Adams <ru************@hotmail.com> wrote:

How can I get this statement to work:
string strData = '\xB';

I get the error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'char' to 'string'.
Can anyone help?

Sure:

string strData = "\xB";

'' is used for specifying a single character.
"" is used for specifying a string.

And that will give me the code for the ASCII character <VT>??

Yup - although using "\v" would be simpler :)

On a related point though, when you *do* need to specify a Unicode
character in that kind of way, I'd suggest using \u instead - it's less
error prone. For instance, using your example:

"hello\xBworld" gives you what you want, but:

"hello\xBBob" doesn't, because the second B is treated as part of the
hex string too. Using

"hello\u000BBob" is fine though.

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