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Use escape sequences in text templates

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You can use escape sequences in text templates to generate text template tags and (in C# code only) to escape control characters and quotation marks.

To print open and close tags for a standard code block to the output file, escape the tags as follows:

\<# ... \#>

You can do the same with other text template directive and code block tags.

If a text block includes strings used to escape text template tags, then you may use the following escape sequences:

  • If a text template tag is preceded by an even number of escape (\) characters the template parser will include half of the escape characters and include the sequence as a text template tag. For example, if there are four escape characters in the text template, there will be two "\" characters in the generated file.

  • If the text template tag is preceded by an odd number of escape (\) characters, the template parser will include half of the "\" characters plus the tag itself (<# or #>). The tag is not considered to be a text template tag.

  • If an escape (\) character appears anywhere else in any sequence other than where it escapes a control character or a quote (in C# only), the character will be output directly.

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