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c# stringbuilder tostring double quote issue

I have an issue when converting a string from stringbuilder to string. The issue is similar to this issue but slightly different:

This is my code simplified:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("\"");
sb.Append("Hello World");
sb.Append("\"");

string test = sb.ToString();

Now in the debugger the sb value is:

"Hello World"

In the debugger the test string value is changed to:

\"Hello World\"

When returning the test string value back to the browser the velue is STILL escaped:

\"Hello World\"

I have tried using the string replace:

test = test.Replace("\"", "");

no luck, I tried appending the ASCII character instead of \" and I have also tried a different append

sb.Append('"');

All these with no luck. Can somebody maybe point me in the right direction of why I'm still getting the escape character and how to get rid of it.

Thanks and appreciate any input.

Solution

  • Ok it seems that in WCF the stringBuilder automatically adds escape quotes. This means you can not get away from that. Also I was going about this all wrong. I was trying to return a string where I was supposed to return a serialised JSON object.