Razor - how to render content into a variable

Question

How to render a piece of Html into a variable in Razor? In Spark I used to write the following code:

Answer 1

Basically the OP already answered the problem in that you could do something like:

@{
   Func a = @
       Some Text        
   ;
   @a(new object())
}    

If the text is for a single line only you could even use the "@:" operator, just remmebr to have a semicolon (or if it needs any closing brackets or parenthesis) on the next line, as in the following example:

@{
   Func a = @: Some Text
   ;    
   @a(new object())
}

However you can capture it directly as a string if you want

@{
    string a = ((Func)(@
                    Some Text
                ))("").ToString();
    @a //Output directly as a string        
}

You could even encapsulate it in a function:

@functions{
     public string ToString(Func input)
     {
          return input("").ToString();
     }
}

@{
    string a = ToString(@
                    Some Text
               );
    @a //Output directly as a string        
 }