Can I escape a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

Question

In a verbatim string literal (@"foo") in C#, backslashes aren't treated as escapes, so doing \" to get a double quote doesn't work. Is there any way to get a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

This understandably doesn't work:

string foo = @"this \"word\" is escaped";

Answer 1

Use a duplicated double quote.

@"this ""word"" is escaped";

outputs:

this "word" is escaped

Answer 2

Use double quotation marks.

string foo = @"this ""word"" is escaped";

Answer 3

For adding some more information, your example will work without the @ symbol (it prevents escaping with \), this way:

string foo = "this \"word\" is escaped!";

It will work both ways but I prefer the double-quote style for it to be easier working, for example, with filenames (with lots of \ in the string).

Answer 4

This should help clear up any questions you may have: c# literals

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