Question

Im trying to insert literal strings into c++ files using a c# tool, and Im tasked with automatically adding escapes.

To start with ‘ => \’. However I cannot figure out the regular expression required to transform instances of ‘ to \’

    public String AddEscapeCharactersForCode(String content)     {         String escaper = '\\\\';         String ncontent = Regex.Replace(content, '\\\\\'');         ncontent = Regex.Replace(ncontent, ''', '\\\\'');         ncontent = Regex.Replace(ncontent, '\n', '\\\\\n');         return content;     } 

The above code does nothing to my strings resulting in unescaped quotes and broken code files =(

Answer 1

Well, you’ve got:

// ... return content; 

…which simply returns the string passed in. So, all of that Regex.Replace goodness gets thrown away.