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Expand Up @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Escapes in interpolations"
nightlyOf: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/changed-features/interpolation-escapes.html
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In Scala 2 there is no straightforward way to represent a single quote character `"` in a single quoted interpolation. A `\` character can't be used for that because interpolators themselves decide how to handle escaping, so the parser doesn't know whether the `"` character should be escaped or used as a terminator.
In Scala 2 there is no straightforward way to represent a double-quote character `"` in a quoted interpolation (except in triple-quote interpolation). A `\` character can't be used for that because interpolators themselves decide how to handle escaping, so the parser doesn't know whether the `"` character should be escaped or used as a terminator.

In Scala 3, we can use the `$` meta character of interpolations to escape a `"` character. Example:

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