Printing " (double quote) in GoLang

Question

I am writing a Go code which reads from a file. To do so I use fmt.Println() to print into that intermediate file.

How can I print "?

Mohur

Answer 1

This is very easy, Just like C.

fmt.Println("\"")

Hennessy

More easily even fmt.Println(`"`) – Hackery

Answer 2

Old style string literals and their escapes can often be avoided. The typical Go solution is to use a raw string literal here:

 fmt.Println(`"`)

Punish

Answer 3

Don't say Go doesn't leave you options. The following all print a quotation mark ":

fmt.Println("\"")
fmt.Println("\x22")
fmt.Println("\u0022")
fmt.Println("\042")
fmt.Println(`"`)
fmt.Println(string('"'))
fmt.Println(string([]byte{'"'}))
fmt.Printf("%c\n", '"')
fmt.Printf("%s\n", []byte{'"'})

// Seriously, this one is just for demonstration not production :)
fmt.Println(xml.Header[14:15])
fmt.Println(strconv.Quote("")[:1])

Try them on the Go Playground.

Matteo

Answer 4

• fmt.Printf("test: %q", "bla")
• output: test: "bla"
• play ground here
• docs here

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