How to use a string with quotation marks inside it?

I have the following string, which I want to execute as a process:

Rundll32 Printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /q /m "SHARP MX-5500N PS" /h "Windows NT x86" /v 3 /f sn0hwenu.inf

However, given the presence of quotation marks, I can't insert this string in C# to make it compile, keeping all of the original structure. How should I fix this? It's a little tricky as there are quotation marks within the string.

Solution 1:

string whatever = "Rundll32 Printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /q /m \"SHARP MX-5500N PS\" /h \"Windows NT x86\" /v 3 /f sn0hwenu.inf";

or

string whatever = @"Rundll32 Printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /q /m ""SHARP MX-5500N PS"" /h ""Windows NT x86"" /v 3 /f sn0hwenu.inf";

Solution 2:

You can put @ in front of the string definition and put two ":

string myString = @"Rundll32 Printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /q /m ""SHARP MX-5500N PS"" /h ""Windows NT x86"" /v 3 /f sn0hwenu.inf"

You can read more about escaping characters in strings in this article:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/strings.html

Solution 3:

you have to escape the quotation marks using \. to have a string that says: Hello "World" you should write "Hello\"World\""

Solution 4:

string s = "Rundll32 Printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /q /m \"SHARP MX-5500N PS\" /h \"Windows NT x86\" /v 3 /f sn0hwenu.inf";