String.Format store double quotes inside string

Question

I want to represent the following string:

aaaa,23,"something inside double quotes", 99, 8, 7

I was thinking to do this using String.Format:

StringBuilder.AppendLine(string.Format("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}",
    item.one, item.two, item.three, item.four, item.five, item.six));

I need to wrap third argument {2} with double quotes.

Related: [How to double-quote a string in C#](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14292652/how-to-double-quote-a-string-in-c-sharp/14292665#14292665) — Tim M., Mar 25 '13 at 08:00

score 35 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 07:59

35

string.Format("{0}, {1}, \"{2}\", {3}, {4}, {5}", ...);

answered Mar 25 '13 at 07:59

acrilige

Jonas W · Answer 2 · 2016-02-25T18:51:25.937

11

You can do like this :

string.Format("{0},{1},\"{2}\",{3},{4},{5}"
   , item.one
   , item.two
   , item.three
   , item.four
   , item.five
   , item.six);

Here is a good link where you can read more about this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/267k4fw5.aspx

edited Feb 25 '16 at 18:51

answered Mar 25 '13 at 08:00

Jonas W

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 25 '13 at 08:02

6

You should add \ before qoutes:

stringbuilder.AppendLine(string.Format("{0},{1},\"{2}\",{3},{4},{5}", item.one, item.two, item.three, item.four, item.five, item.six));

edited Mar 25 '13 at 08:02

Nuffin

answered Mar 25 '13 at 08:00

evgenyl

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 08:03

1

you can put \ symbol to indicate escape sequence followed by a reserved characters (usually \n, \0, \t, \r, \", etc)

answered Mar 25 '13 at 08:03

tonyo

4 Answers4