Can I convert a C# string value to an escaped string literal

Question

In C#, can I convert a string value to a string literal, the way I would see it in code? I would like to replace tabs, newlines, etc. with their escape sequences.

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Answer 1

Hallgrim's answer was excellent. Here's a small tweak in case you need to parse out additional whitespace characters and linebreaks with a c# regular expression. I needed this in the case of a serialized Json value for insertion into google sheets and ran into trouble as the code was inserting tabs, +, spaces, etc.

  provider.GenerateCodeFromExpression(new CodePrimitiveExpression(input), writer, null);
  var literal = writer.ToString();
  var r2 = new Regex(@"\"" \+.\n[\s]+\""", RegexOptions.ECMAScript);
  literal = r2.Replace(literal, "");
  return literal;