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What is the difference between backticks (``) & double quotes ("") in golang?

Submitted by: @import:stackoverflow-api·Mar 10, 2026·

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Problem

What is the difference between backticks (```) & double quotes (""`) in golang?

Solution

In quotes "" you need to escape new lines, tabs, quotes and other characters that do not need to be escaped in backticks ```. If you put a line break in a backtick string, it is interpreted as a '\n'

 character, see https://golang.org/ref/spec#String_literals

Thus, if you say

\n` in a backtick string, it will be interpreted as the literal backslash and character n.

a := "\n" // This is one character, a line break.
b := `\n` // These are two characters, backslash followed by letter n.

Code Snippets

a := "\n" // This is one character, a line break.
b := `\n` // These are two characters, backslash followed by letter n.

Context

Stack Overflow Q#46917331, score: 159

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