Question

Here’s the line from App.Config:

<add key="CheckFileFormatString" value="P{0}\t&quot;{1}, {2}&quot;\t{3}\t{4}\t{5}\t{6}\t{7}\t{8}\t{9}\t{10}"/>

Here’s the code that puts it into a string (please ignore the deprecated .AppSettings.Get call, unless that’s the problem):

string format = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("CheckFileFormatString");

…and here’s the resulting string:

P{0}\\t\"{1}, {2}\"\\t{3}\\t{4}\\t{5}\\t{6}\\t{7}\\t{8}\\t{9}\\t{10}

Where’s the extra backslash coming from?

Answer 1

\t is the symbol for a tab in C# etc, but this is not the case in XML. Your \t is being interpreted as two characters. Try replacing \t with 	 in your config file.