Most readable way to assign a double quote to a string in C#

Question

Does anyone else think that escaping characters in very short strings make them not very readable? I noticed I was using s = "\"" in my code to assign a double quote a string, but having thought about it, I came up with the following alternative: s = '"'.ToString().

• Is my alternative any good? Would you prefer see the first version in code?
• How would you go about assigning two double quotes (""), which might be s = "\"\"", to a string?

/me is marking this CW before being pressured into it.

Answer 1

You could use:

String s = new String('"', 1);

or if you like to confuse people:

String s = @"""";

but actually I still prefer the good-old-fashioned escape: \"

Answer 2

I'm not sure the alternative is more readable, on the contrary it's confusing. Besides, using a function call to have a different look in the source code doesn't make much sense - I would even say it's bad practice.

The old-fashioned escape sequence is the best option IMHO.