Problem with strings in c#

Question

Hi guys , in the following code This is what i do ,

private Speed string[] { get; set;} 
internal speed duration.slow 
public setspeed { get {  return speed } set { speed = value;
string temp = "{ duration :"+speed.tostring()+"}";
this.Speed = new string[] {temp};
} }

the properties are all appended to the script in terms of "atribute : value " ,

the problem that i get (the output not debugger) is $("#Id").tabs({ fx: ["{duration:'slow'}"] }); because of the double quotes the jquery doent work

Answer 1

Your Speed property (or field) is an array, not a single string.

You don't really have any output yet. If you're converting the whole array into a string, that's where the problem is. If you're just looking in a debugger, that's not really output - it's showing you that you've got an array which contains a string.

Please give us more information about what you're doing with the value, and we may be able to help you fix whatever's wrong.

EDIT: To respond to your edit, your description still isn't clear:

the properties are all appended to the script in terms of "atribute : value "

What do you mean by "in terms of"? Please show the code. It looks like you're getting a reasonable representation of a string array, but that that's not what you really want - which suggests that whatever mechanism you're using to add the values to the page isn't appropriate.

Answer 2

the curly braces "{" and "}" are used for formatting strings. If you do not want to do this, double them to escape them:

string temp = "{{ duration :"+speed.tostring()+"}}"

Answer 3

I think the issue is your serialisation to JSON.

You have a string[], so

string[] items = new string[] { 
    "{ duration :'fast'}",
    "{ somethingElse : 'as an example'}" 
};

This serialises (correctly) to JSON as:

var jsonArray = ["{ duration :'fast'}", "{ somethingElse : 'as an example'}"];

I think what you want here is actually:

var jsonObj = { duration :'fast', somethingElse : 'as an example' };

So you either want to literally write out your string[], something like:

$("#Id").tabs({ fx: [<%=string.Join(",", items ) %>] });

Or you want to create a Dictionary<string,object> or new anonymous type and serialise that instead:

var items = new { 
    duration = "fast",
    somethingElse = "as an example"
};

Also, avoid array properties: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k2604h5s.aspx