Join list of string to comma separated and enclosed in single quotes

Question

List test = new List();
test.Add(\"test\'s\");
test.Add(\"test\");
test.Add(\"test\'s more\");
string s = string.Format(\"\'{0}\'\", string.J         


        

Answer 1

It isn't to everyone's taste, but I like to create helper extensions for these kinds of tasks, and put them into a "utility" namespace:

public static class ListExtensions
{
   public static void AddDoubleQuoted(this List list, string input)
   {
     input = input.Replace("'", "''");
     list.Add(input);
   }
}

List test = new List();
test.AddDoubleQuoted("test's");
test.AddDoubleQuoted("test");
test.AddDoubleQuoted("test's more");
string s = string.Format("'{0}'", string.Join("','", test));