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C# How to handle double quotes in string replace

Hi

How do I replace '\"' with '"' globally in C#
Backslash Double Quotes replace with Double Quotes
and remove Double Quotes from the end of a string

string MyString = "Lorem \"ipsum\" dolor sit amet \"consectetuer\" ultrices turpis Phasellus et odio. Urna."";
MyString.Replace('\\"', '"'); // Error CS1012  C# Too many characters in character literal
MyString.Replace("\\"", "\""); didn't work

Console.WriteLine(MyString);
// Expected output
Lorem "ipsum" dolor sit amet "consectetuer" ultrices turpis Phasellus et odio. Urna.

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Kimputer

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trevor1940

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Hi
Thank you the regex was what I needed

What I'm trying to do is clean up up some badly formed HTML so I can parse it using HtmlAgilityPack;

Replacing the

\"

was an obvious quick fix

The code I posted was only to try and illustrate the point

trevor1940

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I used the regex but can Chris solution also working
FYI
For some reason the whole HTML file / string was in Double Quote marks so I had to remove these from the first and last characters then remove the internal \ backslashes