I'm trying to insert single Quotation marks inside a double quotation marks...
Beginning Quotation mark like this "“"
..... and ending Quotation mark like this "”"
...
My code:
objWriter.WriteLine("<li>" + "“" + "<em>" + BP1.Text + "</em>" + "”" + " ― " + "<strong>" + BPGB1.Text + "</strong>" + "</li>")
1st:
The characters that you mentioned are not a single quote, are a double quote.
- Left Double Quotation Mark
- Right Double Quotation Mark
2nd:
In Vb.Net, unlike C#, string concatenations are made with the &
operator, avoid using the +
operator, it will give you unexpected results in some scenarios.
The Visual Studio's code editor automaticaly replaces the characters that you've mentioned with a common double quote, however, knowing the Unicode references you can get the specific characters at execution time then concat them as normally or using the String.Format() method in this way:
Dim lQuotes As Char = Convert.ToChar(&H201C) ' “
Dim rQuotes As Char = Convert.ToChar(&H201D) ' ”
Dim str As String = String.Format("{0}Hello World{1}", lQuotes, rQuotes)
Console.WriteLine(str) ' “Hello World”
UPDATE
An example with the string that you've provided:
Dim lQuotes As Char = Convert.ToChar(&H201C) ' “
Dim rQuotes As Char = Convert.ToChar(&H201D) ' ”
Dim str As String =
String.Format("<li>{0}<em>{2}</em>{1} ― <strong>{3}</strong></li>",
lQuotes, rQuotes, BP1.Text, BPGB1.Text)
objWriter.WriteLine(str)
It seems you used the wrong character for single quotation:
objWriter.WriteLine("<li>" + "'" + "<em>" + BP1.Text + "</em>" + "'" + " ― " + "<strong>" + BPGB1.Text + "</strong>" + "</li>")
not sure if this works or not:
objWriter.WriteLine("<li>" & "““" & "<em>" + BP1.Text + "</em>" + "””" + " ― " + "<strong>" + BPGB1.Text + "</strong>" + "</li>")
or maybe even this
objWriter.WriteLine("<li>" & ““““ & "<em>" + BP1.Text + "</em>" + ”””” + " ― " + "<strong>" + BPGB1.Text + "</strong>" + "</li>")
You will have to change the &"""" with chr(24)
so you would have something like this objWriter.WriteLine("
" & chr(34 ) & chr(34) & "" + BP1.Text + ". . . . .