removing escape character from a C# string

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Hello everyone,



I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg". I
tried indexof, that didn't work.

string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

int y = x.Indexof("\\", 0)



y returned -1

I cannot use substring because the name can change. It can be water Lillies
or something else or lengthier name.

[Pete]

Re: removing escape character from a C# string


"Vinki" <Vinki@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote in message
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Hello everyone,
>
>
>
I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is
the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg". I
tried indexof, that didn't work.
>
string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

This works for me:

[Pete]

Re: removing escape character from a C# string


"Pete" <me@ineedhelp.o rgwrote in message
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"Vinki" <Vinki@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote in message
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>Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
> I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is
>the
>string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg".
>I
>tried indexof, that didn't work.
>>
>string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

>
>

sorry..

This works:

string x = "\"water lillies\"";

string x = x.Replace("\"", "");

[=?Utf-8?B?Vmlua2k=?=]

Re: removing escape character from a C# string

Thanks Pete.

"Pete" wrote:

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"Pete" <me@ineedhelp.o rgwrote in message
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"Vinki" <Vinki@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote in message
news:6FCF87C9-F8E4-4F5B-98DD-7A3423A3793D@mi crosoft.com...

Hello everyone,
>
>
>
I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is
the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg".
I
tried indexof, that didn't work.
>
string x = "\"Water lilies.jpg\""

sorry..
>
This works:
>
string x = "\"water lillies\"";
>
string x = x.Replace("\"", "");
>
>
>
>

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: removing escape character from a C# string

Vinki <Vinki@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:

I am trying to remove the escape characters from my C# string. This is the
string "\"Water lilies.jpg\"". I want to just get "Water lilies.jpg".

And that *is* what you've got. I believe the problem is that you're
looking at the string in the debugger, which is escaping the string for
you. Try printing it out (eg with Console.WriteLi ne) to see the actual
value.

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