double quotation inside url c#

Question

Is there any way to allow the program to take my string as a whole? I have listed an example below For the second example, it doesn't take my entire input as a whole string. hotmail.com is blue (hyperlink) while the id = 50 is recognised as the string. Im guessing its the double quotation marks. What can i do to solve this?

Eg:

1. string str = "hi";
2. string str = "http://hotmail.com/"id"=50";

The actual code im trying to declare:

string url = @"http://www.onemap.sg/advminimap/MiniMap.htm?mWidth=700&mHeight=600&searchval=&zoomLevl=7&iwt=[{""id"":2,""x"":""{0}"",""y"":""{1}"",""screenX"":undefined,""screenY"":undefined,""infoWindowText"":""{2}"",""postalCode"":""{3}"",""searchVal"":"""",""calloutWidth"":100,""calloutHeight"":100,""calloutTitle"":""{4}"",""zoomLevel"":7}, {""id"":3,""x"":""{5}"",""y"":""{6}"",""screenX"":undefined,""screenY"":undefined,""infoWindowText"":""{7}"",""postalCode"":""{8}"",""searchVal"":"""",""calloutWidth"":100,""calloutHeight"":100,""calloutTitle"":""{9}"",""zoomLevel"":7}]&check=true&calloutTitle=&calloutWidth=100&calloutHeight=100&isEdit=1&isSearch=0";

Use the @ in string 2. Then escape double quotes with double double quotes, e.g., `string str = @"http://hotmail.com/""id""=50";` — ps2goat, Oct 15 '13 at 05:53
Replace " by %22 or Use HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zttxte6w.aspx ..thanks mit — mit, Oct 15 '13 at 05:56
What you really should be doing build an Uri is using `UriBuilder`, `NameValuCollection` (for [Query](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829080/how-to-build-a-query-string-for-a-url-in-c) part) and one of JSON serializers (i.e. JSON.Net). — Alexei Levenkov, Oct 15 '13 at 06:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '13 at 05:56

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Always use url encode for parts of a URL which might need to contain anything unusual.... If you want to get into the standards, refer to RFC1738

"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters $-_.+!*'(), and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."

to include double quotation inside url you need to encode it to %22

answered Oct 15 '13 at 05:56

Afshin

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Can i have a snippet? – Weezel Tan Oct 15 '13 at 05:58
just replace every double quotation to %22 when generating the url and replace back when reading on the destination ... – Afshin Oct 15 '13 at 06:02

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 06:24

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use \ before quotation marks inside:

string str = "this is \"some quotation \" you need to put inside of the string";

answered Oct 15 '13 at 06:24

Przunk

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double quotation inside url c#

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