[c#] Can I escape a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

In a verbatim string literal (@"foo") in C#, backslashes aren't treated as escapes, so doing \" to get a double quote doesn't work. Is there any way to get a double quote in a verbatim string literal?

This understandably doesn't work:

string foo = @"this \"word\" is escaped";

Use double quotation marks.

string foo = @"this ""word"" is escaped";

There is a proposal open in GitHub for the C# language about having better support for raw string literals. One valid answer, is to encourage the C# team to add a new feature to the language (such as triple quote - like Python).

see https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/89#discussioncomment-257343

This should help clear up any questions you may have: C# literals

Here is a table from the linked content:

Regular literal	Verbatim literal	Resulting string
"Hello"	@"Hello"	Hello
"Backslash: \\"	@"Backslash: \"	Backslash: \
"Quote: \""	@"Quote: """	Quote: "
"CRLF:\r\nPost CRLF"	@"CRLF: Post CRLF"	CRLF: Post CRLF

For adding some more information, your example will work without the @ symbol (it prevents escaping with \), this way:

string foo = "this \"word\" is escaped!";

It will work both ways but I prefer the double-quote style for it to be easier working, for example, with filenames (with lots of \ in the string).