Having issue appending double quote inline into string builder

Question

Having an issue replacing a pipe with a double quote in a stringbuilder.

sbSql.Append("|" + State + "|"); string strSql = sbSql.ToString().Replace("|", "\"");

Code above yields \"KS\" where I need it to be "KS" or whatever value is in State.

Ideas?

Guffa · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-12 20:26:57Z

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No, it doesn't. You only think that there are backslashes in front of the quotation marks because you are looking at the value in the debugger, which shows the string as you would write it as a string literal.

answered Apr 12, 2011 at 20:26

Guffa

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Bill Martin Over a year ago

It's creating a string to send as a method param. The parm has the \"KS\" value in it, which is incorrect. Thoughts?

digEmAll Over a year ago

@asp316: Try to print that text to the console or to a file, you will see that is just the debug watch that is cheating you ;) (debug watch shows also the escape chars)

Mark Avenius · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-12 20:32:38Z

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If you are seeing \"KS\" in a debug window, you have "KS" in strSql (unless I am mistaken in how I am reading your question.)

edited Apr 12, 2011 at 20:32

answered Apr 12, 2011 at 20:25

Mark Avenius

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Guffa Over a year ago

@asp316: The watch window is part of the debugger.

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