Using stringbuilder with javascript alert

[Mike P]

I am trying to build up some text in a stringbuilder and then use
javascript to show it with an alert box.

Here is my attempt to show it in an alert box :
string str = "";
str += "<script language='javascript'>";
str += "alert('" + sb + "')";
str += "</script>";
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetTy pe(), key,
str);

This works fine until I start trying to add /n's to my stringbuilder to
force new lines. When I do this I get the error 'unterminated string
constant'.

Can anybody help?

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Mike P <mi*******@gmail.comwrote:

I am trying to build up some text in a stringbuilder and then use
javascript to show it with an alert box.

Here is my attempt to show it in an alert box :
string str = "";
str += "<script language='javascript'>";
str += "alert('" + sb + "')";
str += "</script>";
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetTy pe(), key,
str);

This works fine until I start trying to add /n's to my stringbuilder to
force new lines. When I do this I get the error 'unterminated string
constant'.

Can anybody help?

Well for a start, that's not using StringBuilder at all.

To get a string with the contents "\n" you need to escape the
backslash, so you end up with "\\n" in your source code.

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[Leo Seccia]

In stringbuilder try to add new lines as as '//n'...

Leo

"Mike P" <mi*******@gmail.comwrote in message
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>I am trying to build up some text in a stringbuilder and then use
javascript to show it with an alert box.

Here is my attempt to show it in an alert box :
string str = "";
str += "<script language='javascript'>";
str += "alert('" + sb + "')";
str += "</script>";
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetTy pe(), key,
str);

This works fine until I start trying to add /n's to my stringbuilder to
force new lines. When I do this I get the error 'unterminated string
constant'.

Can anybody help?

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Leo Seccia <ls*****@msn.comwrote:

In stringbuilder try to add new lines as as '//n'...

Careful with the slash direction - it should be "\\n" instead of "//n".

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[Leo Seccia]

lol, the initial description of the problem tricked me (it said /n)... and
as you sat that isn't stringbuilder at all, he is just concatenating a
string.
O well, good old Friday.
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Leo Seccia <ls*****@msn.comwrote:

>In stringbuilder try to add new lines as as '//n'...

Careful with the slash direction - it should be "\\n" instead of "//n".

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[Peter Duniho]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:55:57 -0700, Leo Seccia <ls*****@msn.comwrote:

lol, the initial description of the problem tricked me (it said /n)...
and as you sat that isn't stringbuilder at all, he is just concatenating
a string.

Well, maybe. It could just be a poorly-stated question. He does have a
variable named "sb" that he fails to show how it's initialized or used.
Maybe that's the StringBuilder instance to which he's referring. :)

[J.B. Moreno]

In article <MP*********************@msnews.microsoft.com>, Jon Skeet
[C# MVP] <sk***@pobox.comwrote:

Mike P <mi*******@gmail.comwrote:

I am trying to build up some text in a stringbuilder and then use
javascript to show it with an alert box.

Here is my attempt to show it in an alert box :
string str = "";
str += "<script language='javascript'>";
str += "alert('" + sb + "')";
str += "</script>";
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetTy pe(), key,
str);

This works fine until I start trying to add /n's to my stringbuilder to
force new lines. When I do this I get the error 'unterminated string
constant'.

Can anybody help?

Well for a start, that's not using StringBuilder at all.

To get a string with the contents "\n" you need to escape the
backslash, so you end up with "\\n" in your source code.

Or (if he had been using a string builder) sb.AppendLine("value")....

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