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C# C# Basics Strings Escape Sequences

Sebastian Manczak
Sebastian Manczak
3,551 Points
Posted by Sebastian Manczak
Sebastian Manczak
3,551 Points

What am I doing wrong?

Program.cs 
using System;

class Program
{

    // YOUR CODE HERE: Define a Quote method!
  static string Quote(string phrase)
  {
  return \ "phrase \";
  }
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // Quote by Maya Angelou.
        Console.WriteLine(Quote("When you learn, teach. When you get, give."));
        // Quote by Benjamin Franklin.
        Console.WriteLine(Quote("No gains without pains."));
    }

}

1 Answer

Luke Maslany
Luke Maslany
3,558 Points
Luke Maslany
Luke Maslany
3,558 Points

You need to wrap the escaped double quotation mark in double quotation marks so it knows that it is a text string.

Try: return "\"" + phrase + "\""