Question

I am facing an issue with my code .

the thing is i want to escape { in the string.format function …

Of course one way to escape it is to use {{ (2 curly braces)

Is there any other way possible to escape without using the double curly braces.

thanks

Answer 1

Why would there be another solution? {{ is specified as the way of escaping braces in a format string… I can’t see why the API designers would include another way.

Of course, you could also provide a format parameter and then populate it with a brace:

Dim text as String = string.Format("{0}{1}", "{", "}")

will give “{}” as a string, for example… but I can’t see that this is a better solution.

Perhaps if you could say why you dislike the normal solution (double curly braces) we could advise you on an alternative – but there isn’t one within the format specification “language” itself, as far as I’m aware.