Searching a string for a substring containing operators
I'm trying to find how many times the string
"*" occurs in a string I have.
I've tried a few different things including backslashes, but I found a stackoverflow solution saying a string literal should work:
var matches = response.Where(s => s.Contains(@""*"")).Count;
I'm met with an error Operator * cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'. What's the best practice here to accomplish this?11 Replies
@""*"" doesn't make any sense
It reads as (@"") * (""), and you can't multiply strings
Just use "*", no need for the verbatim string.thinker227#5176
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Hey, thanks for replying. To clarify, the substring I am looking for is "*", as opposed to just the char *
The char
*?
Discord's formatting is weirdexample string:
"I'm searching for "*" in this string"
method should return a count of 1Ah
"*" as a stringyep! sorry hard to convey
Yeah, you have to escape the
"s or use a verbatim string. "\"*\"" or @"""*""".
In verbatim strings (preceded by the @), " characters are written as ""
Otherwise you just escape them using \"ahh so I was one set of "" off on the string literal. Thanks for the help!
Yeah, no problem 
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