adding escape characters to a VB string
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I need to add escape characters to a VB string but I get errors. The string needs a double quote, and an asterisk ie. "this is the string \" \*" Problem is, this isn't working...something about a type mis-match. Any ideas?
To do double quotes, you have to use two of them to escape it:
Dim stringWithDoubleQuotes As String = "This is a ""test..."""The contents of the string will be
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
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