What's wrong with this format string in c#

Asked Oct 01 '15 at 09:05

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I am trying to declring a string like this :

string query = @"SELECT foo, bar
FROM table
WHERE id = 42";

as explained in the Post Here

My Text is :

editor.DocumentText = @"<html><body> <div align=\"left\"> <font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#0000ff\">
            <span style=\"font-size:8pt\">Multi-Room DVR Splash screen is displayed with the following:</span></font>";

but it gives error ,

I do understand that i can use + and give multi line string :

editor.DocumentText = "<html><body> <div align=\"left\"> <font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#0000ff\">"+
            "<span style=\"font-size:8pt\">Multi-Room DVR Splash screen is displayed with the following:</span></font>";

This even works fine .

My doubt is why the 1st method of declaring is giving error , but same is working for query example .

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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asked Oct 01 '15 at 09:05

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Because when using `@`, you can't escape `"` with `\\`. – CodeCaster Oct 01 '15 at 09:06
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@CodeCaster you do need to escape `"` but you double it up `@"escaped quotes """` rather than `\"` – Oct 01 '15 at 09:07
@Meehow yeah I was trying to post that, but backslashes and backticks are hard in Markdown. – CodeCaster Oct 01 '15 at 09:08
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In your particular case I would suggest using a `'` in the html rather than a `"` as it will be more readable. – Oliver Oct 01 '15 at 09:08
Try to escape the double quotes by "" instead of \". – NDB Oct 01 '15 at 09:10
Thanks, using "" (double quotes ) and '(single quotes) both got working – coder3521 Oct 01 '15 at 09:14

What's wrong with this format string in c#

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