Question

I have a large string, and a part of this string starts like this:

data-json="{"id":

and ends like this:

"}}}"

I am using the IndexOf method to find positions of data-json=" and the " in the end of the string.

However, when trying to find the index of the ", I get the index of the first " instead (in the string in the top of the post).

How can I make the IndexOf method distinguish between " and "?

This is how I search for the ":

string.IndexOf("\"", startIndex);

Of course maybe it could be possible to search for }}}" instead, but now I’m curious how to make the IndexOf method behave like I want it to.

Answer 1

This is embarrassing, please forgive my rookie mistake:

The startIndex used in the IndexOf method was simply wrong (it found the " in data-json=" because the startIndex value was too small).