How to insert a backspace in a string in C#

Question

Is it possible to insert a backspace at the end of a string in C#?

If possible, then how do I insert a backspace in a string?

Brokenhearted

What are you trying to accomplish? – Darken

Take a look at Escape sequences: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h21280bw.aspx – Estimation

Answer 1

The escape sequence for backspace is:

\b

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cf2e3220-dc8d-4de7-96d3-44dd93a52423/what-character-escape-sequences-are-available-in-c?forum=csharpgeneral

C# defines the following character escape sequences:

• \' - single quote, needed for character literals
• \" - double quote, needed for string literals
• \\ - backslash
• \0 – Null
• \a - Alert
• \b - Backspace
• \f - Form feed
• \n - New line
• \r - Carriage return
• \t - Horizontal tab
• \v - Vertical quote
• \u - Unicode escape sequence for character
• \U - Unicode escape sequence for surrogate pairs.
• \x - Unicode escape sequence similar to "\u" except with variable length.

Punish

Answer 2

Depends on what you are trying to achieve. To simply remove the last character you could use this:

string originalString = "This is a long string";
string removeLast = originalString.Substring(0, originalString.Length - 1);

That removeLast would give This is a long strin

Scare

Answer 3

this will insert a backspace in the string

string str = "this is some text";
Console.Write(str);
Console.ReadKey();
str += "\b ";
Console.Write(str);
Console.ReadKey();
//this will make "this is some tex _,cursor placed like so.

if its like Belogix said(to remove last char),you can do like belogix did or other way like:

string str = "this is some text";
Console.WriteLine(str);
Console.ReadKey();

Console.WriteLine(str.Remove(str.Length - 1,1));
Console.ReadKey();

or just:

string str = "this is some text";
Console.WriteLine(str + "\b ");

Noodlehead