On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:
I’m really interested in the scenario where you are passing user input as
the format string – do you have user input with placeholders ({0}) that you
need to fill?
His problem is double formatting.
Something like:
Back to coding ... I diagnosed an app crash today caused by an argument to
string.Format having curly braces inside it. I was doing something like
string.Format(Report title: {0}, title) where title was the string
{Intention} and I'm told this is a perfectly acceptable title.
We all know
Does this help?
http://geekswithblogs.net/jonasb/archive/2007/03/05/108023.aspx
On 3 February 2011 15:42, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Back to coding ... I diagnosed an app crash today caused by an argument
to string.Format having curly braces inside it. I was doing something like
Keogh
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:42 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: string.Format and curly braces
Back to coding ... I diagnosed an app crash today caused by an argument to
string.Format having curly braces inside it. I was doing something like
string.Format(Report title: {0}, title) where
You don't have to escape arguments, for example, below shouldn't crash on
any version of .NET .
We you perhaps instead passing user input as the format string instead?
That you will have to escape.
Oops! Sorry, you're right, I had it backwards. The format string contains
{Intention} not the
