[julia-users] Escaped $ in Strings has a strange behavior

[David Anthoff]

I get 

 

julia> x = "I have \$100 in my account"

"I have \$100 in my account"

 

Shouldn't the backlash not appear in the output? If then do

 

println(x)

 

the backlash doesn't show, but I would have expected that it also doesn't
show if I just eval the string.

 

Am I missing something basic here?

 

Thanks,

David