C# Remove the escape character

Question

I've came across a problem with creating Facebook campaigns from .net code. The campaign name has a limit of 100 characters. When I try to submit a name that is exactly 100 chars long but with a double quote like:

var name = "avery\"ongnamewithalotoflettersandcharacterswhoknowswhyaverylongnamewithalotoflettersandcharacterswho";

.net counts the string length as 100 but FB as 101, counting the \\ as extra character and fails the validation.

Wonder if there is a way to remove the \\ before submission to FB?

If I split the string into code array @ http://jdstiles.com/java/cct.html

it shows code 92 for the escape slash but I'm unable to do the same in C#

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For string in .NET, \\ and " are not separate characters. \\" is an escape sequences and it counts as one character.

As far as I aware, that's not possible.

You can't use " in your string without \\ except verbatim string literal . Even if you delete your \\ in your string, as far as I know, there is no way to change your string from regular string literal to verbatim string literal .

Answer 2

Try:

var name = @"c:\all\Special\Chars\Are\Escaped";

or

Insert the char in manually

var name = "firstPart" + char(90) + "secondPart";

Answer 3

Maybe the FB counts the termination \\0 as the additional character. Then you can effectively have only 99 visible characters and nothing you can do about it, sorry.