I am having trouble with Java escape characters. I have these from Confluent ccloud configs example. but does not work . both give me the same error message Error:(16,114) java: illegal escape character
props.put(SaslConfigs.SASL_JAAS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username\="<abcdfg>" password\="<xyz123>";");
props.put(SaslConfigs.SASL_JAAS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule \
username=\"abcdfg\" password=\"xyz123\";");