"String" with "" in it

[Lukezzz]

How would you write a string that has "are" in it:

I beleive this would be a wrong way ?

String GetString = "Hello how "are" you"

[ShawnCplus]

somestring = "this is a \"string with \" quotes";

[Dave Sinkula]

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
   std::string text("This string has \"embedded quotes\" in it.");
   std::cout << text << "\n";
}

/* my output
This string has "embedded quotes" in it.
*/

[Lukezzz]

Ok, If I now want to check this string if the string contains: "string with" how is the way to do the opposite check for "" within a string ?

String Test = "this is a \"string with\" quotes";

if (Test.Substring(11,13) == ??? ) //"string with"
{}

somestring = "this is a \"string with \" quotes";

[NathanOliver]

well if you want to check for a " in a string then you can write.

if (somestring[n] == ' " ')  // i put a space between the single quotes and the double quote so you could see it.  in your program just put '"'.
{
       //...

[Lukezzz]

Thanks but this does not seem to compile:

'==' : no conversion from 'int' to 'System.String'
'==' : 'System.String' differs in levels of indirection from 'int'

String test = "this is a \"string with\" quotes";
if( test == '"' ){}

[NathanOliver]

what string are you using? std::string or something else?

[Lukezzz]

Sorry, perheps I forgot to tell, I use the:

System.String as my compileerror shows. I am not sure if that would be different.
Thank you.

[NathanOliver]

yes it is. in order to do the comparison you need to tell the code what character to check. like:

for (int i = 0; i < somestring.length; i++
{
       if (somestring[i] == '"')
       {
              //...
       }
}

[Lukezzz]

Thank you again, your code works but if I go back to what I am trying to do. To check for a string within a string.

I have tried to put it like this but this does not seem to be correct. Perheps I am missing something out. Thanks.

String test = "this is a \"string with\" quotes";


for (int i = 0; i < test.Length; i++)
{       
	 if (test.Substring(i,14) == '"string with"')       
	 {     
		 MessageBox.Show("Found");
		 break;
	 }
}

[NathanOliver]

the size you want for the substring should be 13 not 14. that should help

[ShawnCplus]

'"string with"'

is invalid, '' are used for chars, "" are for strings.

"\"string with\""

is that string

[Lukezzz]

Sorry again but what I meen is that this code doesn´t compile. I beleive something must be wrong somewhere in the code ?

The compilerrors is as follows:

too many characters in contant
== no conversion from int to System.String

String test = "this is a \"string with\" quotes";


for (int i = 0; i < test.Length; i++)
{       
	 if (test.Substring(i,13) == '"string with"')       
	 {     
		 MessageBox.Show("Found");
		 break;
	 }
}

the size you want for the substring should be 13 not 14. that should help

[Lukezzz]

Thanks that did work:

"\"string with\""