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Strings and Characters

Strings in C# begin and end with double quotes and contain text. Characters begin and end with single quotes and contain a single character. Escape sequences are used to include special characters in strings by prefixing them with a backslash. Verbatim strings declared with an @ symbol before the opening quote ignore escape sequence rules and display the string content as written.

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Strings and Characters

Strings in C# begin and end with double quotes and contain text. Characters begin and end with single quotes and contain a single character. Escape sequences are used to include special characters in strings by prefixing them with a backslash. Verbatim strings declared with an @ symbol before the opening quote ignore escape sequence rules and display the string content as written.

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Strings and Characters

A string begins and ends with a “double quote”. Example

string foo = "this is a string";

A Character begins and ends with a ‘single quote’. Example

char bar = 'b';

A character denotes a single character.

But we can put a single quote in a string (notice the apostrophe


at “Isn’t”. Example

string foo = "Isn't this a string?";


:ESCAPE SEQUENCES:

Escape Sequences, they begin with a backslash \ and end with a


single character.

string foo = "I asked, \"Isn't this a string\"";


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:GENERATING A TAB:

To generate a tab in a sentence we add backslash \t

string foo = "I \t asked, \"Isn't this a string\"";

:GENERATING A NEWLINE:
To generate a NewLine in your code just add a backlash \n

string foo = "I \n asked, \"Isn't this a string\"";

:GENERATING A BACKSLASH:

To add a backslash \ in your string just add a double backslash

string foo = "I \\ asked, \"Isn't this a string\"";


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:GENERATING A VERBATiM STRING:
A verbatim string is a sentence that we want displayed regardless of the rules of C#. We just
add @ symbol before the sentence, we can use this method instead of the Escape sequence:
string foo = @"I asked, ""Isn't this a string""";
Console.WriteLine(foo);

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