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Paragraph Symbols

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CaptainBob007

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Dec 20, 2003
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Hello,

I'm working on a system to parse XML files we receive from a client and transform them to HTML. One of the characters contained in this XML file is the "paragraph" symbol, which I will show: ¶

The file is standard XML 1.0 in UTF-8. I can't figure out for the life of me how to get C# to parse this symbol. I tried entering it literally, such as
Code:
string.IndexOf('¶')
and also in unicode, like
Code:
string.IndexOf('u\00B6')
both of which have been to no avail. Is there something I'm missing here?
 
My apologies, for the unicode part I meant

Code:
string.IndexOf('\u00B6')
 
try double quotes "&#00B6"

What does the actual xml look like?
 
here's a small excerpt:

...as they will become increasingly vital. ¶ "Mergers of service providers have pressured...

The paragraph symbols all occur within a single xml node, and simply denote paragraphs within that section of the document. I'm trying to parse the location of them so I can replace them with <p> tags instead.
 
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