Question

I want this line of code to work-

int start = s.IndexOf(""_type": "Person""name": "");

But clearly the double quotes are messing up the search… Any ideas about how to get this working?

Answer 1

You can take two approaches to this.

The first is by using a string-literal and escaping double-quotes with another double quote:

string s = @"This is a ""quoted"" string.";
s.IndexOf(@"a ""quoted"" string");

The other is to escape the double-quotes with a backslash:

string s = "This is a \"quoted\" string.";
s.IndexOf("a \"quoted\" string");