Need help with regular expression

[intrader]

I can't figure out why VS2005 has a problem with the following definition

Regex rx = new Regex(@"('|\")"); //here put squiggle under ");

what I think I am writing is a regular expresion that will give me all
the matches for single or double quotes and remember the match so that I
can then say

Regex.Replace(somestring,rx,@"\\$1");

Help is greatly appreciated

Thanks

[Dave Sexton]

Hi,

In your string you are escaping a " with the escape character, \, however,
you told the compiler that the string is a literal by using the @ character,
so it won't process the \. It sees a string with three quotes so it's
complaining.

When using the @ character to make a string literal, you can escape a
quotation mark with another quotation mark:

@"('|"")"

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>I can't figure out why VS2005 has a problem with the following definition

Regex rx = new Regex(@"('|\")"); //here put squiggle under ");

what I think I am writing is a regular expresion that will give me all the
matches for single or double quotes and remember the match so that I can
then say

Regex.Replace(somestring,rx,@"\\$1");

Help is greatly appreciated

Thanks

[intrader]

Dave Sexton wrote:

Hi,

In your string you are escaping a " with the escape character, \, however,
you told the compiler that the string is a literal by using the @ character,
so it won't process the \. It sees a string with three quotes so it's
complaining.

When using the @ character to make a string literal, you can escape a
quotation mark with another quotation mark:

@"('|"")"

Fantastic, Thanks