First off, forgive me for I know very little about MS Visual Studio & ASP, but my issue is that I can not seem to figure out the syntax for placing a variable within a string in the following ASP code....
description = viewCat[0]["description"].ToString();
metaHTML = @"
<title></title>
<meta name='description' content='" + description + "' />
";
Question I'm looking for is what is the correct way of placing the variable "description" within the string??
To create a string from a variable, you can use String.Format:
string description = "something";
string formattedStr = String.Format("Some string and {0}",description);
In your case:
description = viewCat[0]["description"].ToString();
metaHTML = String.Format("<title></title><meta name='description' content='{0}'/>", description);
Your assignment of metaHTML comprises three strings - two literals and the variable description. Only the first literal is a multiline string (you prefix it with @). The second string is not: the characters "' /> are an unterminated string, and aren't correlated with the characters on the next line.
What you want to do is this - note the extra @:
metaHTML = @"
<title></title>
<meta name='description' content='" + description + @"' />
";
What is the error that you get since this is a nice way of doing the stuff that you're talking about.
@"<title></title>
<meta name='description' content='" + description + "' />";
The only thing that you must worry about is any un escapted " inside the string. On the first occurance this string would break the string. Otherwise it would work.
In the Visual Studio the Red Squiggly lines are due to the error in the String length. In ASP.NET and C# to create multiline Strings you use @ before the string to make it multiline. Like the first line of your String value.
Otherwise each string is single line and you cannot start a new line in it like you're doing right now. So either use this
<meta name='description' content='" + description + "' />";
... or else use this
<!-- note the @ in the string -->
<meta name='description' content='" + description + @"' />
";
The better function is to use the first code I provided, because it ends the line where it must be ended. Try it, it would remove the red lines.
