How do I escape curly braces in a format string?

[Tony Chow]

...since curly braces already delimit format specifiers.

Say if I want to compose the following client-side javascript with a dynamic
value in it:

function IsThisAlright(value)
{
return value != dynamicnumber;
}

... in which "dynamicnumber" is generated on the server side at runtime.

If I use the String.Format() to construct this script and inserting the
dynamic value, how do I escape the curly braces?

This is driving me nuts. I can't local this elementary bit of information
in the documentation!

Please help. Thanks in advance.

[-glenn-]

Tony, I couldn't find it in the docs either (read it here about a week ago).
I think what you want is to use two braces wherever you need one. For
example, if your format string is:

"{{ <{0}> }}"

And you pass "hi" as the first parameter, it will come out as:

{ <hi> }

-glenn-

"Tony Chow" <ever...@ucla.edu> wrote in message
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[Greg Ewing]

Tony, you can escape the { and } with a \.

So, you would use Console.WriteLine("This is a curly bracket \{"); to print
a left curly.

In your VS.NET IDE help you can find more info at:

ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/cpgenref/html/xsdrefsinglecharacterescape.htm

--
Greg
http://www.claritycon.com/

"Tony Chow" <ever...@ucla.edu> wrote in message
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[-glenn-]

Greg, that doesn't seem to work with String.Format or Console.WriteLine.

The help section you reference is for an XML Schema Regular Expression where
I think you can escape curly braces as you can with "regular" Regular
Expressions.

-glenn-

"Greg Ewing" <gewing@_NO_SPAM_claritycon.com> wrote in message
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[Greg Ewing]

glenn, my bad, I wrote the code off the top of my head assuming it would
work for Format and WriteLine. Sorry about that. You're {{ }} solution
definitely works though.

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Greg
http://www.claritycon.com/

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