C# @“” how do i insert a tab?

Question

Recently i found out i can write in a \" by writing two \" ex @\"abc\"\"def\". I find the @ string literal useful. But how do i write in a tab or n

Answer 1

That quote escape sequence ("") is the only "escape" that works in verbatim string literals. All other escapes only work in regular string literals.

As a workaround you may use something ugly like this:

string.Format(@"Foo{0}Bar", "\t");

or include an actual tab character in the string. That should also work with regular string literals, but whitespace, especially tabs, usually doesn't survive different text editors well :-)

For newlines it's arguably much easier:

@"Foo
Bar";