string contains {} and templated

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I am using httpwebrequest to communicate with a restful service and I need to send a json. I want the json format to be configurable therefore I am trying to use a string template and format:

string template ="{ \"content\" : \"{0}\" }";
string.format(template,"my data");

But I get an exception of bad format. Any ideas on how to.create a template containing curly brackets?

Thanks ahead, Alon

Read it. Already available http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3773857/escape-curly-brace-in-string-format — sohail.hussain.dyn, Nov 28 '13 at 11:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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You have to escape brackets as explained here on SO and on MSDN:

string template ="{{ \"content\" : \"{0}\" }}";

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Nov 28 '13 at 11:54

Adriano Repetti

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '13 at 11:54

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This should work:

string template ="{{ \"content\" : \"{0}\" }}";
string.Format(template,"my data");

You need to escape the braces that are not used to specify a parameter.

answered Nov 28 '13 at 11:54

Alberto

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string contains {} and templated

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