how to deal with quotes in a string when passing that string to the command line

I can't get my head around quotes.

EG, I have a string for an mp3 with quotes:

string ARTIST = "John \"The Man\" Doe"

I then want to开发者_JS百科 pass this to a command line WITH the escape sequences. I therefore need my string to look like (I think):

ARTIST = "John \\\"The Man\\\" Doe"

So it looks like, for every time I have an (actual) " in my string, I need \".

I have tried using:

ARTIST.Replace("\"","\\\"") 

But this has not worked. What is the correct way to handle quotes at the command line in my application?

Make sure you are doing:

ARTIST = ARTIST.Replace("\"","\\\"");

Instead of just:

ARTIST.Replace("\"","\\\"");

Is this the case already?

The windows command line doesn't use \ as an escape for a quote, it uses a redundant quote,

so you want to send "John ""The Man"" Doe" which you get in C# by escaping each quote

string ARTIST = "John \"\"The Man\"\" Doe"

The basic idea does seem to be correct, but did you also add the surrounding quotes, i.e.,

"\"" + ARTIST.Replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\""

Also, note that you'll need three backslashes rather than two to escape \"; the compiler would complain if you didn't.