Is there a way in Visual Studio to convert text to a C# string literal?

Is there a way in Visual Studio to convert text to a C# string literal and back?

For example if I have the text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

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can I easily convert it to:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing\n" + 
"elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut\n" +
"laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat."

and then convert it back using a macro or some utility?

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You know you can do

@"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing  
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut  
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat."

right? @-strings (a.k.a. "verbatim string literals") can contain newlines.

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there are add ons for that take a look here http://arcanecode.com/2006/11/20/visual-studio-add-ins-paste-as/

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In Visual Studio 2013, you can install 'SmartPaster2013' via Extensions and Updates.

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If you prefix the string with an @ you can get something similar:

string lorem = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.";

This will preserve the whitespace.

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DevExpress CodeRush can do this.

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Yes. Use:

string s = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing  
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut  
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. 
";

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If you don't mind extra whitespace, you can enclose it in quotes and include the @ symbol at the beginning which means 'literal.' Like this:

string s = @"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing 
elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut 
laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.";

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If you are using Visual Studio, you can load the value into a variable and copy Value from Locals Window by double-clicking so it's highlighted as text

It's a little fidgety to do, but can be done.

Or you write a long tedious function like this one

static string ToCodeString(string s)
    {
        System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();

        char c;
        int i = 0;

        while (i < s.Length)
        {
            c = (char)s[i];

            if (c == 34 || c == 92 || c == 93) //speechmarks backslash
            {
                sb.Append("\\" + c);
            }
            else if (c == 13)
            {
                sb.Append("\\r");
            }
            else if (c == 10)
            {
                sb.Append("\\n");
            }
            else if (c == 0)
            {
                sb.Append("\\0");
            }
            else if (c == 7)
            {
                sb.Append("\\a");
            }
            else if (c == 8)
            {
                sb.Append("\\b");
            }
            else if (c == 12)
            {
                sb.Append("\\f");
            }
            else if (c == 9)
            {
                sb.Append("\\t");
            }
            else if (c == 11)
            {
                sb.Append("\\v");
            }
            else if (c >= 32 && c <= 127) //ascii
            {
                sb.Append(c);
            }
            //else <-- if you want to represent unicode in ascii
            //{
            //    sb.Append(string.Format(@"\u{0:x4}", (int)c));
            //}
            else
            {
                sb.Append(c);
            }
            i++;
        }

        return sb.ToString();
}