Question

Why does my the declaration of my string in the code result in the following error? Is there a workaround?

Code:

<script runat="server">

Protected Sub form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)
    Dim x As String = "</script>"
    Response.Write(x) 
End Sub
</script>

Error: Statement cannot appear within a method body. End of method assumed.

Note: The following page did not fix my issue and instead resulted in the string <\/script> being output in my page. ( VB.NET hates </script> tag in string literal )

Answer 1

try :

<script runat="server">
Protected Sub form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)
    Dim x As String = "</" + "script>"
    Response.Write(x) 
End Sub
</script>