"" representation within a string

Question

How can I represent the '' characters within a string, for example i have a string Mary said 'The weather is nice today' Of course i cant do something like this string phrase = ' Mary said 'The weather is nice today' ' Can anyone help me?

Brandon Lewis · Answer

Another cool thing you can do with the absolute marker, the @ sign, is you can store multiline strings like this: string myString = @"This is a multiline string and it will be stored like this."; Pretty cool, lol.

kiki · Answer

thank you very much for your help:)

Alan · Answer

If your string is 'verbatim' (i.e. preceded by the @ character), you can achieve the same thing by doubling the quotes: string phrase = @"Mary said ""The weather is nice today""";

Dave · Answer

You can use the backslash as an escape character to accomplish that. You would write: string phrase = "Mary said \"The weather is nice today\""; The slash followed by the inverted commas signals to the compiler that those inverted commas are not the end of the string and that they should be displayed as text.

"" representation within a string

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