C# MVC, reading carriage returns from web.config

Question

I am trying to put a list of delimiters in a web.config file, one of the delimiters is a carriage return - \r\n. The web.config entry looks like this -

<add key="Separators" value=" |,|;|\r\n"/>

I am trying to read in the list using a call like the following -

string[] MySeparators = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings ConfigSettings.PartNumberSeparators].Split('|');

The list is being read, but the carriage return ends up containing extra back slashes and looks like this - \\r\\n

Is there some way to prevent this from happening?

Answer 1

You could try using XML entities 
 and 
. Provided that the .NET configuration system supports resolving these entities, then these should appear as \r\n at runtime.