Is there a way in Visual Studio to convert text to a C# string literal?

Question

Is there a way in Visual Studio to convert text to a C# string literal and back?

For example if I have the text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

can I easily convert it to:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing\n" + 
"elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut\n" +
"laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat."

and then convert it back using a macro or some utility?

Answer 1

You know you can do

@"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing  
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut  
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat."

right? @-strings (a.k.a. "verbatim string literals") can contain newlines.

Answer 2

DevExpress CodeRush can do this.

Answer 3

Yes. Use:

string s = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing  
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut  
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. 
";

Answer 4

If you prefix the string with an @ you can get something similar:

string lorem = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.";

This will preserve the whitespace.

Answer 5

If you don't mind extra whitespace, you can enclose it in quotes and include the @ symbol at the beginning which means 'literal.' Like this:

string s = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.";

Answer 6

there are add ons for that take a look here http://arcanecode.com/2006/11/20/visual-studio-add-ins-paste-as/