C# String.Replace double quotes and Literals

Question

I\'m fairly new to c# so that\'s why I\'m asking this here.

I am consuming a web service that returns a long string of XML values. Because this is a string all the attri

Answer 1

the following statement in C#

string xmlSample = ""

will actually store the value

whereas

string xmlSample = @"";

have the value of

for the second case, you need to replace the slash () by empty string as follow

string test = xmlSample.Replace(@"\", string.Empty);

the result will be

P.S.

1. slash (\) is default escape character in C#
2. to ignore slashes, use @ at the beginning of string
3. if @ is used, the escape character is double quote (")