do not know how to put \' into string

[bronze1man]

V version:
OS:
https://vlang.io/play
What did you do?

fn main() { 
	areas := ['game', 'web', '\\\'', 'systems', 'GUI', 'mobile']
        for i,area in areas {
                println('Hello, $area developers!')
        }
} 

got error message:

syntax error: unexpected `', '`, expecting `,`
    1| fn main() { 

[zeddidragon]

You escape it once. '\\' will result in a single slash \.

Another option is using raw string: r'\\\' will output \\\

[richgieg]

One way to put a single quote in a string is to use double quotes to wrap the string (e.g.: "it's one way").

[Ivo-Balbaert]

The solution has been given by zeddidragon and richgieg above. The following code works with v 0.1.27 on Windows 10 and the Playground (2 versions that work are given here):

fn main() {
// areas := ['game', 'web', "\'", 'systems', 'GUI', 'mobile']
areas := ['game', 'web', r''', 'systems', 'GUI', 'mobile']
for _, area in areas {
println('Hello, $area developers!')
}
}

Output:
/*
Hello, game developers!
Hello, web developers!
Hello, ' developers!
Hello, systems developers!
Hello, GUI developers!
Hello, mobile developers!
*/