Backslash is not recognized

[naveenr34]

Hello all,

I am trying to connect to a SQL Server with Cypress and have configuration added in the cypress.json as described in the documentations, unfortunately I am not able to connect to our database, I thought it is due to VPN issues as our database(has 2 VPN's) is not accessible from our Local systems. But now I realized that the backward Slash '' is not recognized in the cypress Dashboard Settings ->Configuration and skips the first letter of my username i.e.,
My username given for Database in Cypress.json : CYPRESS\nshashi, in the Cypress Dashboard Settings ->Configuration it is taken as "CYPRESS shashi".
I could guess the problem is because it interferes with system values but I really don't know what to do.
Could some one please help me in overcoming this issue, I am no expert in the cypress or configurations related things for Automation.

[bahmutov]

When writing JSON strings you need to escape the \ character, so it should be written as "userName": "me\\here"

[naveenr34]

Thank you, it is now interpreted correctly 👍 :-)