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Problem with escape character

I have a string variable. And it contains the text:

\0#«Ия\0ьw7к\b\0E\0њI\0\0ЂЪ\n

When I try to add it to the TextBox control, nothing happens.Because \0 mean END.

How do I add text as it is?

UPDATE: The text is placed in the variable dynamically.Thus, @ is not suitable.

Solution

  • Is the idea that you want to display the backslashes? If so, the backslashes will need to be in the original string.

    If you're getting that text from a string literal, it's just a case of making it a verbatim string literal:

    string text = @"\0#«Ия\0ьw7к\b\0E\0њI\0\0ЂЪ\n";

    If want to pass in a string which really contains the Unicode "nul" character (U+0000) then you won't be able to get Windows to display that. You should remove those characters first:

    textBox.Text = value.Replace("\0", "");