Unterminated String Constant MVC4 Razor View Engine

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I am working on MVC4 Application (Razor engine). When ever I try to call a js function from a button, it says error :-

Unterminated string constant

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However it does not give any compile time or runtime error and works fine.

But on view there it clearly says about above mentioned error:

why it is so?

What version of Visual Studio? – haim770 Sep 04 '14 at 07:07 — haim770, Sep 04 '14 at 07:07

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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The Razor parser is picky, and in some cases it doesn't correctly parse or color-code the syntax. Your code will work.

To fix the issue, you can format the code in a way that the parser will know exactly how to figure this out. Use parentheses around all Razor server-side code references:

<input type="button" id="btntest" value="Details"
     onclick="ABC('@(Item.TourApplicationID)', '@(Item.TourID)')" />

Edit: above may have only been working in VS 2013, with or without an update. (or not at all- I just remember it working.

Below should work, taken from MVC3 unterminated string constant syntax error:

<input type="button" id="btntest" value="Details"
     onclick="@("ABC('" & Item.TourApplicationID & "', '" & Item.TourID & "')")" />

(I think that's correct. Hard to tell without the color-coding.)

I prefer string.format, so that onclick would look more like:

onclick="@(String.Format("ABC('{0}', '{1}')", Item.TourApplicationID, Item.TourID) )"

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Sep 04 '14 at 07:09

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error doesn't disappear.It still says the same error.. :( – Pawan Sep 04 '14 at 07:11
Maybe it was something they fixed in VS 2013 in one of the Updates. – ps2goat Sep 04 '14 at 07:12
May be, But till now I have never used VS 2013. – Pawan Sep 04 '14 at 07:13
@DeadLock, edited the answer. This should work for you with VS 2012. – ps2goat Sep 04 '14 at 07:19
Because it's a bug. I tested the original code for the button in VS 2013 Update 3, and I didn't receive an error or a warning. – ps2goat Sep 04 '14 at 14:50

Unterminated String Constant MVC4 Razor View Engine

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