How to escape string </script> in a verbatim string literal inside <script runat="server">

Question

I am using ASP.NET 4.0 Web forms. I want to escape </script> tag in script tag defined on an aspx page. Code as simple as this:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Theme="" %>
<script runat="server">
    string dfd = @"<script></script>";
</script>

is simply not working. How can I tell the compiler not to count it as server-side script closing tag?

Answer 1

You could just break the string and concat using the string.Concat method, for sample:

string dfd = string.Concat("<script>", "</", "script>";

Or if you need to add some code, for sample:

string dfd = string.Concat("<script>", "alert('Hello World!');", "</", "script>";