Simple string replacement gone wrong

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I am trying to post a json string via a form submission ( multi-part encoding ) to an aspx page and send back a response based on the deserialized json string. ( I really need to do this via a form submission. no ajax ) I dunno why this doesn't work, but every time I try a simple string replacement to replace the single quotes with double quotes in the json string. It doesn't seem to be happening. Here's a summary of what I did. Here's the JSON string, ``` [["
 22.02 13:15 
 ","

","

"," 
 Vereina
 ","
 
 ","
 35 000
 ","
 24.03.11
 ","
 Taiwan 
 ","
 
 ","
 
 "]] ``` To send it via form data I replace all the " quotes with ' quotes like this, [['
 22.02 13:15 
 ','

','

',' 
 Vereina
 ','
 
 ','
 35 000
 ','
 24.03.11
 ','
 Taiwan 
 ','
 
 ','
 
 ']] On the server side I am replacing the new lines since I don't need them, ``` [[' 22.02 13:15 ',' ',' ',' ',' Vereina ',' ',' 35 000 ',' 24.…

Accepted Answer

The debugger shows strings as they would appear as C# string literals. That's why quotation marks are escaped. The string is not affected, though.

You can easily verify that by printing the string somewhere.

Quick demonstration:

In the debugging windows (purple) the string shows with escaped quotes (and surrounded by quoation marks, thus making it a C# string literal), while the output in the console (red) shows the actual contents.

Simple string replacement gone wrong

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