ASP.NET / C# : variable with double quote

Question

In ASP.NET & C#, I try to declare a variable with double quote in it, for eg.

string str1 = @"""quote""";

The result I expect to get is "quote", but the result I get is "\\"quote\\"", can anybody help?

Answer 1

What you've done is correct. I believe you are inspecting the string value through QuickWatch/Watch window. If so, you will see escape character \\ before every double quote inside the string. Just try this and see you actual value.

Console.WriteLine(str1);

If you want to see a proper string (without \\ ), click on the magnify glass icon on the left in QuickWatch pop-up.