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[Vswe]

How can I store a double quote as a string in visual basic?

[Vswe]

Ok, Thanks alot. It were something I never thought about before and then when I now needed to use it, I just thought; How can this possible work?

Thanks again.

[Vswe]

The thing is, it didn't work.

[Vswe]

Well I solved it myself:

Insetead of:

Dim MyString as string = ""

It was just to write:

Dim MyString as string = """"

And the string got the value "
A little bit strange perhaps.

[Vswe]

hehe :D I wrote the correct solution before, but didn't even test if it worked since it looked completely wrong (It was just two empty strings between each other).

Edited by Vswe, 04 May 2009 - 12:03 PM.
misspelled

[Xav]

Jordan said:

Very odd indeed. I wouldn't expect repeating an escapable char twice would escape it, but then again, this is Visual Basic.. :)

Yeah, that's how it's done in VB. Escape sequences don't work in VB. This problem comes up quite a lot in VBA in particular, where you are writing macros to concatenate data from various string fields.

[Xav]

Hey, do you hear me disagreeing? :) But VB as a syntax is often the only option, thanks to Microsoft deciding to use it in all their office macros.

[chili5]

Well that's kinda annoying. Which is one of the reasons I don't like VB. :D

Why can't you use C# for office macros?

[Xav]

Maybe you can - but of course, Microsoft use VBA (a derivative of VB) as the language that macros are recorded in.