Print a string and display the newlines & tabs in their character format

Question

I am parsing a html file for one simple line. So I am not using a 3rd party library just normal string functions(s.subString() etc.).

My problem is I cannot correctly find specific elements in the HTML because they contain tab characters, endlines, carriage returns.

How can I print the following string to display all the carriage returns as \r, all endlines as \n & etc. So I can then see exactly the layout of the HTML file & ensure my

.subString("<div class=\"x\">")

is not failing because the text is really

("<div \t\r\nclass=\"x\">"

or something?

My code:

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string html = wc.DownloadString(String.Format("http://www.ipchecking.com/?ip={0}&check=Lookup", ip));

Console.Write( html ); // I want to print in the raw form where \r characters are actually shown as \r characters

Use an HTML parser. The [HTML Agility Pack](http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/) is popular. — Oded, Mar 02 '12 at 11:26

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '12 at 11:37

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html = html.Replace("\r", "\\r").Replace("\n","\\n").Replace("\t","\\t");

answered Mar 02 '12 at 11:37

mmdemirbas

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 31 '12 at 10:37

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I think the best way will be using regular expressions REGEX:

Sample Regular Expressions

edited Jul 31 '12 at 10:37

mmdemirbas

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answered Mar 02 '12 at 11:31

Alex

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first of all thank you, second i can read certian html tags after saving them in a string, why not? – Alex Mar 02 '12 at 11:38

Print a string and display the newlines & tabs in their character format

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