Does this help?
http://geekswithblogs.net/jonasb/archive/2007/03/05/108023.aspx
On 3 February 2011 15:42, Greg Keogh wrote:
> Back to coding ... I diagnosed an app crash today caused by an argument
> to string.Format having curly braces inside it. I was doing something like
> string.Format("R
You don't have to escape arguments, for example, below shouldn't crash on any
version of .NET .
We you perhaps instead passing user input as the format string instead? That
you will have to escape.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keo
It reminds me of that old c nemesis, scanf and its ilk. Even printf could
get confused at times if you fed it the wrong parameters.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, David Kean wrote:
> You don’t have to escape arguments, for example, below shouldn’t crash on
> any version of .NET .
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> We
>You don't have to escape arguments, for example, below shouldn't crash on
any version of .NET .
>We you perhaps instead passing user input as the format string instead?
That you will have to escape.
Oops! Sorry, you're right, I had it backwards. The format string contains
"{Intention}" not th
Re-write all your Format calls to preFormat, which does a sanity check on
parameters? It'd let you do a global search replace thru your code, and
give you one spot to add escaping of the braces if the contents of the
braces didn't meet a pre-determined string.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Gr
, 2011 4:34 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: string.Format and curly braces
Re-write all your Format calls to preFormat, which does a sanity check on
parameters? It'd let you do a global search replace thru your code, and give
you one spot to add escaping of the braces if the contents of the b
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, David Kean wrote:
> I’m really interested in the scenario where you are passing user input as
> the format string – do you have user input with placeholders ({0}) that you
> need to fill?
His problem is double formatting.
Something like:
string likes = "Okay: {0
It's not that simple. The formatting call is deep inside a "general purpose"
routine that renders a Silverlight drawing using graphics primitives and it has
a feature to construct strings out of pieces of other strings, controlled by an
XML config file. I guess I outsmarted myself by creating th
