Can I escape a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

In a verbatim string literal (@"foo") in C#, backslashes aren't treated as escapes, so doing " to get a double quote doesn't work. Is there any way to get a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

This understandably doesn't work:

string foo = @"this \"word\" is escaped";

Use a duplicated double quote.

@"this ""word"" is escaped";

outputs:

this "word" is escaped

Use double quotation marks.

string foo = @"this ""word"" is escaped";

For adding some more information, your example will work without the @ symbol (it prevents escaping with \), this way:

string foo = "this \"word\" is escaped!";

It will work both ways but I prefer the double-quote style for it to be easier working, for example, with filenames (with lots of \ in the string).

This should help clear up any questions you may have: C# literals

Here is a table from the linked content:

> Regular literal | Verbatim literal | Resulting string >-|-|- > "Hello" | @"Hello" | Hello > "Backslash: \\" | @"Backslash: \" | Backslash: \ > "Quote: \"" | @"Quote: """ | Quote: " > "CRLF:\r\nPost CRLF" | @"CRLF:
Post CRLF" | CRLF:
Post CRLF

As the documentation says:

> Simple escape sequences ... are interpreted literally. Only a quote escape sequence ("") is not interpreted literally; it produces one double quotation mark. Additionally, in case of a verbatim interpolated string brace escape sequences ({{ and }}) are not interpreted literally; they produce single brace characters.

Update: With C# 11 Preview feature - Raw String Literals

string foo1 = """
   this "word" is escaped
   """;

string foo2 = """this "word" is escaped""";

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History:

There is a proposal open in GitHub for the C# language about having better support for raw string literals. One valid answer, is to encourage the C# team to add a new feature to the language (such as triple quote - like Python).

see https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/89#discussioncomment-257343