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I'm having a bit of trouble trying to write a single " to a file in C# as I can't seem to get the escape sequence to work. The idea being I want to write the line survey id="6737AF7F-F422-4995-B781-B3DE315DFE6D" to a file where the GUID itself is user input.

my current code for this is 

XML.Add("<survey id=" + "\"\"" + surveyGUID.Text + "\"\"" + ">");

which writes survey id=""6737AF7F-F422-4995-B781-B3DE315DFE6D"".

Every variation I've tried either won't build, comes out the same way or writes survey id=\"6737AF7F-F422-4995-B781-B3DE315DFE6D\". Can this be done? Is there another escape sequence I don't know about?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James Morrison
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    Why are you manually writing out your XML? There are plenty of classes for that. Check out [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284324/how-can-i-build-xml-in-c) to make your life easier. – krillgar Sep 27 '16 at 18:32
  • it was not showing it.. it is now.. – MethodMan Sep 27 '16 at 18:33

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Here's what you want:

XML.Add("<survey id=" + "\"" + surveyGUID.Text + "\"" + ">");
rory.ap
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just remove one of your escaped quotes on each side.

XML.Add("<survey id=" + "\"" + surveyGUID.Text + "\"" + ">");
Neil Locketz
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