c# and JavaScript

Question

So i have this code

sb.AppendLine(  "var nameSplit = users[i].split('\');");

The sb.AppendLine is C# and the bit inside is JavaScript, I am trying to split users[i] so that I can strip out the Domain name, unfortunately this does not work I have also tried

sb.AppendLine(  "var nameSplit = users[i].split('\\');");

It doesn't make much sense really, I have done an alert of nameSplit and it shoes that it splits the text on every letter as though the \ escapes nothing, the second example doesnt work at all when I would expect that to and as javascript on its own it works fine.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Matt

Answer 1

Try

sb.AppendLine(  "var nameSplit = users[i].split('\\\\');");

this will give the javascript

var nameSplit = users[i].split('\\');

\ is an escape character in both C# and javascript so you need two of then in a litteral to specify that you need one in the real string.

Answer 2

Try adding a '@' in front of the quote, so it would look like....

sb.AppendLine(  @"var nameSplit = users[i].split('\');");

The @ symbol should make the code take the string 'as is' and ignore special characters and whatnot.