Utilities.Escape(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine

Assembly:: Microsoft.Build.Engine.dll

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Converts the specified string into a syntax that allows the MSBuild engine to interpret the character literally.

public:
 static System::String ^ Escape(System::String ^ unescapedExpression);

public static string Escape (string unescapedExpression);

static member Escape : string -> string

Public Shared Function Escape (unescapedExpression As String) As String

Parameters

unescapedExpression: String

The string to convert.

Returns

String

The converted value of the specified string.

Remarks

Certain characters have special meaning in MSBuild project files. Examples of the characters include semicolons (;) and asterisks (*). In order to use these special characters as literals, they must be specified with the syntax %nn, where nn represents the ASCII hexadecimal value of the character. This method performs that conversion.

Applies to