Strings in C# 11 just got a whole lot better

Hello everybody I'm Nick and in this video I will introduce you to a new C# 11 feature called raw string literals. Raw string liretals allows us to deal with string in their raw form without having to format them in a specific way in our code and escape them. It makes working wiht JSON an absolute breeze and I can't wait to use them when C# 11 comes out.

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[ledrake]

Nick: "And just so the errors are not distracting in Rider i'm gonna go to VSCode"
VSCode : Are you sure about that

[chylex]

I've seen so many languages try to come up with raw string literals and end up with something that's ugly or annoying to use in some ways, but this is my favourite. The variable number of " and $ is a really flexible and elegant solution.

[capsey_]

This is actually really similar to the way Python does this thing, and honestly, C# here have done it so much better with ignoring extra spaces and stuff, while Python just has raw string that you can't align with the rest of the code

[nitesh-maharaj]

The triple quotation marks is also used for multiline string in Swift. I'm really glad they adopted this feature and it's nice how flexible it is to handle sequential characters and string interpolation.

[paulostradioti]

Yes, please, keep showing the edge cases, that's the best part!

[claudiovalerio]

This is cool!
I have projects with LOTS of complex SQL queries (some for optimization reasons, some from legacy code, etc...) that are simply ugly to see in code, or difficult to follow due to formatting.
If I try for make them readable, I will then have difficulties following from profiling tools.
This feature will definetively make both my code readable and debuggable, will use for sure!

[badger-]

When creating a source generator, I so badly wanted something like this! Creating nicely formatted code is such a pain in those things...

[EpsilneR]

How about opening """ on new line. So you do not need to have any extra on each line of variable declare and assignment sign.

[antonknieriemen]

Works pretty well and is not just for net7.0. It can be used with Visual studio 2022 in any project (even Framework) if you put the in the project file. Pretty cool.

[joshbishop]

So, it's 11PM right now and I clicked this thinking it was going to be about string music in the key of C# for some reason, and I mean it wasn't that but dang this is still cool. Awesome video!

[Max_Jacoby]

Wow! First thing I thought it's gonna be a gimmick 'cause you can't align it in a code but anchoring alignment to a position of triple quotes is brilliant. At last I'm satisfied with a new C# feature 😊

[antonmartyniuk]

I like this new feature. I will be using it for sure in my code. So many double quotes and dolar signs may look wierd but man you won't be using more than 3 quotes in 99% of cases

[cuachristine]

One of the few times when VB got this feature earlier (like 10 years ago) in the form of XML literals.

[Nuan]

I've just started learned c#. Love how clear and informative this video is.

[jesslilly]

I use JSON in some unit tests. I just open it from a file. Then I get JSON syntax highlighting in that file.

[prozacgodretro]

I've always felt that this should be some sort of editor feature, the editor through context or some form of metadata tag (comment) knows that this is a multi-line / raw string, and there's some known encoding style for it, and then a smaller "windowed" area in the editor is created for this variable.

If this sort of thing (other than the interpolation) was an editor tool, then we get it for all languages.

[KeyboardKrieger]

Nick: Look at this cool new C# feature.
Me, a unity dev: ...

[merthsoft]

Immediately installed dotnet 7 so I could use this in a game I'm making right now! Thanks for this video!

[anreton]

Thank you very much for your introduction to C# raw string literals.

Two questions:
1. I saw earlier that a slightly different format for this was discussed, which was inspired by C++.

E.g.
R"(<a href="file">C:\Program Files\</a>)"

I'm interested in your opinion: is the current format really better and more convenient than the one discussed earlier by folks in csharplang repo issue "Proposal: Support "raw" string literals"?

2. For similar tasks, I usually use this alignment, a little simpler. What do you think? Will it work with current format for C# raw string literals?

E.g.
var text =
"""
{
"Name": "Anton",
"Age": 28
}
""";

[tchpowdog]

I like this and I'll definitely use it. I dynamically build HTML for creating reports, so this is a massive addition for that. But I could see that the 7 quote scenarios could cause a mess with you're dynamically building strings. But, obviously, it will work fine for 99% of use cases.