I am creating a PDF file on a windows temporary directory with this method:
System.IO.Path.GetTempPath()
and also I'm concatenating a the string with a DateTime like this code:
string pathPdf = string.Format(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() + "detalle-{0}{1:yyyyMMddhhmmss}.pdf", txtFolio_detalle_consum.Text, DateTime.Now);
this is the value of the string:
C:\\Users\\Admin\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\detalle-6020121112102343.pdf
But when I try to use the value later in the code some how c# removes me the doubel backslash ending the string in the following way:
C:UsersAdminAppDataLocalTempdetalle-6020121112102343.pdf
without the backslashes.
Any one have an Idea of why c# is doing this?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE
I output the variables with a Javascript alert using the following function:
protected void alerta(string msj)
{
string script1 = #"<script type='text/javascript'>alert('" + msj + "');</script>";
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, typeof(Page), "Adv", script1, false);
}
I'm also passing this variable to use it on a query string like this:
string scriptjs = string.Format("<script language='JavaScript'>window.open('emergentes_consum/vista_previa_imprimir.aspx?DocumentUrl={0}', '_blank', 'fullscreen=no')</script>",pathPdf);
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, typeof(Page), "Capturar_Emails", scriptjs, false);
Launch the debugger, add the variable to your Watch window and go step by step through your program to find the code that removes these slashes. C# does not do that by itself.
Side note - use System.IO.Path.Combine to concatenate paths (folders and files).
As it turned out in the comments, the string in question was passed to JavaScript alert - so the solution was to add a call to HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode
That is not the value of the string.
That's how the debugger displays the string.
If you write a string literal in source code, you need to escape the \s, or use a verbatim string literal (#"C:\a\b")
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I have grabbed some data from a website.A string which is named as urlresult in the data is "http:\/\/www.cnopyright.com.cn\/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=\u5317\u4eac\u6c83\u534e\u521b\u65b0\u79d1\u6280\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8&softwareType=1".
what I want to do is to get rid of the first three char #'\' in the string urlresult above . I have tried the function below:
public string ConvertDataToUrl(string urlresult )
{
var url= urlresult.Split('?')[0].Replace(#"\", "") + "?" + urlresult .Split('?')[1];
return url
}
It returns "http://www.cnopyright.com.cn/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=\\u5317\\u4eac\\u6c83\\u534e\\u521b\\u65b0\\u79d1\\u6280\\u6709\\u9650\\u516c\\u53f8&softwareType=1" which is incorrect.
The correct result is "http://www.cnopyright.com.cn/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=北京沃华创新科技有限公司&softwareType=1"
I have tried many ways,but it hasn't worked.I have no idea how to get the correct result.
I think you may be misled by the debugger because there's no reason that extra "\" characters should get inserted by the code you provided. Often times the debugger will show extra "\" in a quoted string so that you can tell which "\" characters are really there versus which are there to represent other special characters. I would suggest writing the string out with Debug.WriteLine or putting it in a log file. I don't think the information you provided in the question is correct.
As proof of this, I compiled and ran this code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var url = #"http:\/\/www.cnopyright.com.cn\/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=\u5317\u4eac\u6c83\u534e\u521b\u65b0\u79d1\u6280\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8&softwareType=1";
Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}{2}", url, Environment.NewLine,
url.Split('?')[0].Replace(#"\", "") + "?" + url.Split('?')[1]);
}
The output is:
http:\/\/www.cnopyright.com.cn\/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=\u5317\u4eac\u6c83\u534e\u521b\u65b0\u79d1\u6280\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8&softwareType=1
http://www.cnopyright.com.cn/index.php?com=com_noticeQuery&method=wareList&optionid=1221&obligee=\u5317\u4eac\u6c83\u534e\u521b\u65b0\u79d1\u6280\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8&softwareType=1
You can use the System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Unescape method:
var input = #"\u5317\u4eac\u6c83\u534e\u521b\u65b0\u79d1\u6280\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8";
string escapedText = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Unescape(input);
Thank for reading my thread.
Here is the command line I like to call within my C# code:
C:\>"D:\fiji-win64\Fiji.app\ImageJ-win64.exe" -eval "run('Bio-Formats','open=D:\\Output\\Untitiled032\\ChanA_0001_0001_0001_0001.tif display_ome-xml')"
This is the exact command I can see from my console window, and it runs and gives me what I need. I want to run this command line from from my C# code, so there is escape character problem I don;t know how to handle
There are two strings I'd like to make them flexible
D:\fiji-win64\Fiji.app\ImageJ-win64.exe
D:\Output\Untitiled032\ChanA_0001_0001_0001_0001.tif
I am wondering how I can use string.Format() to formulate this command line?
This is my current code, it opens the image, but the display_ome-xml did not get called:
string bioformats = "Bio-Formats";
string options = string.Format("open={0} display_ome-xml", fileName.Replace("\\", "\\\\"));
string runCommand = string.Format("run(\"'{0}'\",\"'{1}'\")", bioformats, options);
string fijiCmdText = string.Format("/C \"\"{0}\" -eval {1}", fijiExeFile, runCommand);
where fijiExeFile works fins, it is just the runCommand keeps ignoring the display_ome-xml. Anyone has any suggestions? It is really really confusing. Thanks a lot.
As #Kristian pointed out, # can help here. It also appears that there may be some extra or misplaced \" in the code above. This seems to give the desired output string:
string fijiExeFile = #"D:\fiji-win64\Fiji.app\ImageJ-win64.exe";
string fileName = #"D:\\Output\\Untitiled032\\ChanA_0001_0001_0001_0001.tif";
string bioformats = "Bio-Formats";
string options = string.Format("open={0} display_ome-xml", fileName);
string runCommand = string.Format("run('{0}','{1}')", bioformats, options);
string fijiCmdText = string.Format("\"{0}\" -eval \"{1}\"", fijiExeFile, runCommand);
The easiest way is to use the verbatim string literal.
Just put a # before your string like so:
#"c:\abcd\efgh"
This will disable the backslash escape character
If you need " inside your string, you will have to escape the the quotation marks like so:
#"c:\abcd\efgh.exe ""param1"""
Your example could be:
String.Format(#"""{0}"" -eval ""run('Bio-Formats','open={1} display_ome-xml')""", #"D:\fiji-win64\Fiji.app\ImageJ-win64.exe", #"D:\Output\Untitiled032\ChanA_0001_0001_0001_0001.tif")
or
string p1 = "D:\\fiji-win64\\Fiji.app\\ImageJ-win64.exe";
string p2 = "D:\\Output\\Untitiled032\\ChanA_0001_0001_0001_0001.tif";
String.Format(#"""{0}"" -eval ""run('Bio-Formats','open={1} display_ome-xml')""", p1, p2);
I need to pass a URL from C# to javascript. The problem is if the filename has single quote, it does not execute the javascript. When I use HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(fileNameWithoutEx) it does execute javascript but if filename is say "Copy of David's Birth Certificate" then URL gets converted to ?View.aspx?length=60&ext=pdf&file=Copy of David' Birth Certificate.
When View.aspx tries to get the querystring file i.e; filename, it gets set to "Copy of David" and not "Copy of David's Birth Certificate". Because of & it does not get the rest of the querystring.
if (System.IO.File.Exists(fileLocation)) {
string fileNameWithoutExt = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fileLocation);
string fileExtension = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(fileLocation).Replace(".", "");
string title = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(fileName);
string url = "View?length=" + 60+ "&ext=" + fileExtension + "&file=" + fileNameWithoutExt;
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, GetType(), "ShowPDF", "$(document).ready(function(){ShowPDFDocument('" + title + "', '" + url + "');});", true);
}
How can I send url with single quote to javascript?
What's the best way to handle ' and other special characters?
Use Uri.EscapeDataString(yourLinkHere);. See Uri.EscapeDataString on MSDN.
You're embedding the title and URL within quote-delimited strings in JavaScript, so you need to escape them.
title = title.Replace("'","\\'");
url = url.Replace("'","\\'");
You can try percent codes. I would recommned using %20 in the place of spaces as well. You can chance the file name itself or the way you route to it in code.
urlstring.replace("'", "%27")
Try to replace your ' with %27 which is the standard percent encode for '
Characters with reserved purposes should be replaced to guarantee functionality in all environments. You can view the list and read up on this here.
In my page I will get the ID from link parameters, with that ID I will search the database for the file path, after reading the file and storing its contents I want to put its contents inside my <pre> tag... So I will have a literal in which the text for it will be:
Code.Text = "<pre>" + File Contents in string + "</pre>";
My question is how will I insert the contents there if I need to read the file line by line into an string array, unless I read it all into one string, BUT that will make the text look like one huge line in the page.
Also, is it going to conflict with literal syntax(?) definitions, since for quotes we have to do \" instead of " ...?
If you are working with literal control, you use the StringBiulder And Append properties becouse It let you put any HTML code from code behind.
Something like:
//Declare your String Builder
private StringBuilder stb = new StringBuilder();
And also you could have any proccess when you read the file, and split it by any char like \n
string readFile = //Any Method that you read you file string.
string[] tokens = readFile.Split('\n');
stb.Append("<pre>");
foreach (string s in tokens)
{
stb.Append( s + "<\br>");
}
stb.Append("</pre>");
finally you attach the Stringbuilder value to you Literal
YourLiteral.Text = stb.ToString();
I hope that help, and you won't have the value in one line. And remember the carring return need be in the string file to the split works.
Cheers
I want to make a string into a URL using C#. There must be something in the .NET framework that should help, right?
Another way of doing this is using Uri.EscapeUriString(stringToEscape).
I believe you're looking for HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode.
System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(string url)
I found useful System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(string str);
It replaces spaces with %20 and not with +.
To properly escape spaces as well as the rest of the special characters, use System.Uri.EscapeDataString(string stringToEscape).
As commented on the approved story, the HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode method replaces spaces with + instead of %20.
Use one of these two methods instead: Uri.EscapeUriString() or Uri.EscapeDataString()
Sample code:
HttpUtility.UrlEncode("https://mywebsite.com/api/get me this file.jpg")
//Output: "https%3a%2f%2fmywebsite.com%2fapi%2fget+me+this+file.jpg"
Uri.EscapeUriString("https://mywebsite.com/api/get me this file.jpg");
//Output: "https://mywebsite.com/api/get%20me%20this%20file.jpg"
Uri.EscapeDataString("https://mywebsite.com/api/get me this file.jpg");
//Output: "https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite.com%2Fapi%2Fget%20me%20this%20file.jpg"
//When your url has a query string:
Uri.EscapeUriString("https://mywebsite.com/api/get?id=123&name=get me this file.jpg");
//Output: "https://mywebsite.com/api/get?id=123&name=get%20me%20this%20file.jpg"
Uri.EscapeDataString("https://mywebsite.com/api/get?id=123&name=get me this file.jpg");
//Output: "https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite.com%2Fapi%2Fget%3Fid%3D123%26name%3Dget%20me%20this%20file.jpg"
I needed to do this too, found this question from years ago but question title and text don't quite match up, and using Uri.EscapeDataString or UrlEncode (don't use that one please!) doesn't usually make sense unless we are talking about passing URLs as parameters to other URLs.
(For example, passing a callback URL when doing open ID authentication, Azure AD, etc.)
Hoping this is more pragmatic answer to the question: I want to make a string into a URL using C#, there must be something in the .NET framework that should help, right?
Yes - two functions are helpful for making URL strings in C#
String.Format for formatting the URL
Uri.EscapeDataString for escaping any parameters in the URL
This code
String.Format("https://site/app/?q={0}&redirectUrl={1}",
Uri.EscapeDataString("search for cats"),
Uri.EscapeDataString("https://mysite/myapp/?state=from idp"))
produces this result
https://site/app/?q=search%20for%20cats&redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmysite%2Fmyapp
Which can be safely copied and pasted into a browser's address bar, or the src attribute of a HTML A tag, or used with curl, or encoded into a QR code, etc.
Use HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode
HttpUtility.UrlDecode works for me:
var str = "name=John%20Doe";
var str2 = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(str);
str2 = "name=John Doe"
HttpUtility.UrlEncode Method (String)
The below code will replace repeating space with a single %20 character.
Example:
Input is:
Code by Hitesh Jain
Output:
Code%20by%20Hitesh%20Jain
Code
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Enter a string");
string str = Console.ReadLine();
string replacedStr = null;
// This loop will repalce all repeat black space in single space
for (int i = 0; i < str.Length - 1; i++)
{
if (!(Convert.ToString(str[i]) == " " &&
Convert.ToString(str[i + 1]) == " "))
{
replacedStr = replacedStr + str[i];
}
}
replacedStr = replacedStr + str[str.Length-1]; // Append last character
replacedStr = replacedStr.Replace(" ", "%20");
Console.WriteLine(replacedStr);
Console.ReadLine();
}
HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode
From the documentation:
String TestString = "This is a <Test String>.";
String EncodedString = Server.HtmlEncode(TestString);
But this actually encodes HTML, not URLs. Instead use UrlEncode(TestString).