Output '{' or '}' with string.format(...)

Question

I bet that's an easy question for you, but searching SO or Google with { or } in the search string doesn't work very well.
So, let's say i wanna output {Hello World}, how do i do this using string.format(...)?

Edit:
looks like this:

string hello = "Hello World";
string.format("{0}", '{' + hello + '}');

would do the job, but that doesn't look very elegant to me. Is there a way to escape these characters inside the format string?

Answer 1

Use {{ and }}. So your example would be string.Format("{{Hello World}}");

Answer 2

I had this same problem two weeks ago. Resharper solves it automatically.

Putting it as "{" + mystring + "}" and using the "use format string" automatically converted it to string.format("{{{0}}}", mystring).

Answer 3

You might find

var hello = "Hello world";
var test = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}", "{", hello, "}");

easier to read than

var test = string.Format("{{{0}}}", hello);