Passing special characters in a string

[CheckDude]

I am having trouble passing a string that has special characters in it as an argument in a program. To be specific Method Signature: methodName(string) I need to pass the following string: QTextPrint("TestMessage") methodName("QTextPrint("TestMessage")"); Doesn't work methodName(""QTextPrint("TestMessage")""); Doesn't work methodName("QTextPrint\(\"TestMessage\"\)); Doesn't work methodName(@"QTextPrint\(\"TestMessage\"\)); Doesn't work Even attempting the same type of action in a stringbuilder doesnt work. Any ideas would be appreciated. Regards Bob Robey

[IamJunk]

try this... methodName("QTextPrint(\"TestMessage\")"); I Hope this should work. If not give this a shot string param = "QTextPrint({0}TextMessage{1})"; param = string.Format(param, "\"", "\""); Hope this helps

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[mav northwind]

It's really quite simple: In C/C++/C# a string is delimited by " If you want to use " _inside_ a string you have to prefix this " (and only this one) with \ So #1 won't work because the first string ends before TestMessage, #2 won't work because you start with an empty string (""), #3 won't work because \( doesn't have to be escaped and #4 won't work because the @ will mess up all your \'s. Use methodName("QTextPrint(\"TestMessage\")"); This will work. Regards, mav

[CheckDude]

Thanks to both of you for your help. I selected the option of building the string using formatting since there were many segments that need to be concatenated. Problem Solved. Best Regards Bob Robey