How to escape backticks in string literal

Question

I have a slack payload that would format to markdown. And I'm trying to figure out how to preserve the backtick

var jsonStr = []byte(`{
  "channel": "#edtest",
  "username": "snapshot",
  "attachments": [
        {   
            "mkdwn": true,
            "text": "`this backtick doesn't work`",
        }
    ]
}`)

if you look at the text field, that backtick won't work

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '19 at 02:20

You can't escape backticks. When there's long text like this, one thing you can do is to replace them:

var jsonstr=[]byte(strings.Replace(`{
Some json string with ^backticks^
}`,"^","`",-1))

Another option is to add string segments:

var jsonstr=[]byte(`{
Some json string with `+"`backticks`"+`
}`)

How to escape backticks in string literal

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