ASP.net and regular expression

[-zorro-]

Ok this probably has a really simple answer but i am new to asp.net and for some reason i just cant figure it out.

I have a text field that currently has a validator on it which has a regular expression attached to it.

my regular expression is as follows ^[a-zA-Z\d\s,.?!'@]+$ now i want to edit this so it can accept double quotes however as the reg ex is stored in a string ("^[a-zA-Z\d\s,.?!'@]+$") when i add the double quote into the reg ex it ends the string, i have tried escaping it with \ which doesn't work, is there a different escape character for asp.net? or am i just being stupid and missing something really obvious?

any help is welcomed

Thanks

[Phil Weber]

Assuming you're using VB (in C#, escaping with \ should work), you can do this:

Pattern = "^[a-zA-Z\d\s,.?!'@" & Chr(34) & "]+$"

Or you can do this:

Pattern = "^[a-zA-Z\d\s,.?!'@\x22]+$"

[-zorro-]

Thread is accessible again now

I am using c# and the \ does not seem to work i have also tried it as its own escape char no no avail any other advice?

[Phil Weber]

Try \x22

[-zorro-]

Thanks for your help that seems to work