Sending text via ViewBag asp.net mvc

Question

I have a string which I add in my controller..

ViewBag.mydata = "a,x,b,\na,y,b,....."

In my view in javascript code I call..

var myvar= @ViewBag.mydata;

when I see the view source html I find

var myvar = a,x,b,
            a,y,b,
            .......

I need myvar to be the string I sent in ViewBag..

Thanks

well, \n will do that to a string :-)

Dani
– Dani

2014-10-08 14:14:34 +00:00
Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 14:14 — Dani
– Dani, Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 14:14

Vladimirs · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-08 14:33:08Z

2

Try

var myvar= '@ViewBag.mydata';

Seems you having that because with @ViewBag.mydata you outputing just contents of your C# string to make it as a javascript string you need to wrap that into quotes.

Update 1.

If you wan't to keep your \n's displaying you need to escape \ and that could be achieved by duplicating that sign:

var myvar= '@ViewBag.mydata'.replace('\n', '\\n');

edited Oct 8, 2014 at 14:33

answered Oct 8, 2014 at 14:15

Vladimirs

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Arnab Over a year ago

Does not help.. it adds a quote in front and end but /n gets converted to new line

Vladimirs Over a year ago

@Arnab from your question it seems like that should be an answer. Can you describe better what you want you acheive? I take that you want \n displayed on UI, right? How you are using your myvar?

Arnab Over a year ago

My 'var myvar' code was in js, so replace did not help, but thanx to your providing the '\\n', I was able to solve the problem by sending the data from controller with \\n instead of \n and that did it..

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