XML Deserialization C#, newline character \n is replaced with \\n -

i trying deserialize simple xml document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <data>    <somedata> data1\ndata2\n </somedata> </data> 

this function.

public class datatry {     public static string deserialize()     {         xmlserializer deserializer = new xmlserializer(typeof(data));         textreader reader = new streamreader(@"d:\myfile.xml");         object obj = deserializer.deserialize(reader);         data xmldata = (data)obj;         reader.close();         return xmldata.somedata;     }      [serializable, xmlroot("data")]     public class data     {         [xmlelement("somedata")]         public string somedata { get; set; }     } } 

the result data1\\ndata2\\n. don't want newline character \n replaced \\n.

this behaving expected.

your string data1\ndata2\n. \n here not newline character, literal string \n. when @ in debugger, see in escaped form \\n.

if want newline, have unescape string. 1 way of doing use regex.unescape:

var escaped = @"data1\ndata2\n";         var unescaped = regex.unescape(escaped); 

see demo: https://dotnetfiddle.net/vwphvg

be wary method intended unescape regular expressions , therefore unescape more standard characters. can see other options in this related question