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Let's say I have a string:

string str = "09012013 Receipt 09012013 #12"

I want to do substring to return "Receipt 09012013 #12", I used substring:

var result = str.Substring(9);

and the result was only "Receipt 09012013"

I tried with other special characters (%,§,$ ...), it worked, substring returned "Receipt 09012013 %12", but with # and &, substring only returned "Receipt 09012013".

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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My code:

new NaviListItem("renameBtn", "showwaitingscreen", "akte/renameakte?entityid=" + Request["parentid"] + "&aktenkurzbezeichnung=" + Model.Node.Header.Substring(Model.Node.Ordnungsnummer.Length+1), "umbenennen.png", Model.RenameVisible, "Umbenennen", "Umbenennen"),
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    For me result is "Receipt 09012013 #12". Have you wriiten your own extension method Substring?
    – Hamlet Hakobyan
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:07
  • It retursn ok on my computer for every special character in your question.
    – Soner Gönül
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:07
  • How do you know your result is "Receipt 09012013"? Try MessageBox.Show(result)
    – Bolu
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:11
  • @HamletHakobyan: I used standard Substring. I used this in View.cshtml, to pass the value to JQueryAjaxDialog
    – Ragnarsson
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:13
  • Then you must follow @dasblinkenlight recommendations.
    – Hamlet Hakobyan
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:14

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The result of Substring does not depend on the characters at the end:

string str = "09012013 Receipt 09012013 #12".Substring(9);

produces "Receipt 09012013 #12" as its result.

Most likely this is a display issue: if you are delivering the result of the Substring over some sort of HTML-enabled display mechanism, the & and # would often be treated as meta-characters, and therefore require escaping.

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  • Yes, I used it in a View.cshtml, to pass value to JQueryAjaxDialog, so, do you have solution ?
    – Ragnarsson
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:15
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    @QuiTran "and therefore require escaping."
    – Hamlet Hakobyan
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:20
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    @QuiTran Use System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode() on the result of Substring to escape meta-characters.
    – Sergey Kalinichenko
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:21

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