Adding line break in C# Code behind page

Question

I have written a code in C# which is exceeding page width, so i want it to be broken into next line according to my formatting. I tried to search a lot to get that character for line break but was not able to find out.

In VB.NET I use '_' for line break, same way what is used in C# ? I am trying to break a string.

Thanks in Advance Shantanu Gupta

Answer 1

In C# there's no 'new line' character like there is in VB.NET. The end of a logical 'line' of code is denoted by a ';'. If you wish to break the line of code over multiple lines, just hit the carriage return (or if you want to programmatically add it (for programmatically generated code) insert 'Environment.NewLine' or '\r\n'.

Edit: In response to your comment: If you wish to break a string over multiple lines (i.e. programmatically), you should insert the Environment.NewLine character. This will take the environment into account in order to create the line ending. For instance, many environments, including Unix/Linux only use a NewLine character (\n), but Windows uses both carriage return and line feed (\r\n). So to break a string you would use:

string output = "Hello this is my string\r\nthat I want broken over multiple lines."

Of course, this would only be good for Windows, so before I get flamed for incorrect practice you should actually do this:

string output = string.Format("Hello this is my string{0}that I want broken over multiple lines.", Environment.NewLine);

Or if you want to break over multiple lines in your IDE, you would do:

string output = "My string"
              + "is split over"
              + "multiple lines";

Answer 2

Option A: concatenate several string literal into one:

string myText = "Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity" +
    " - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.";

Option B: use a single multiline string literal:

string myText = @"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity
- distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.";

With option B, the newline character(s) will be part of the string saved into variable myText. This might, or might not, be what you want.