Using escaped \ causes syntax error

[jithine]

I am unable to use this string ' i am \ back slash' on a message. Getting this error

SyntaxError{message: 'Expected "\\#", "\\u", "\\{", "\\}", "{", [^{}\\\0-\x1F \t\n\r], end of input or whitespace but "\\" found.', expected: [Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., value: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., description: ...}, Object{type: ..., description: ...}], found: '\', offset: 77, line: 1, column: 78, name: 'SyntaxError'}

My use case is to render a message which has back slash in it. How can I do this ?

[ericf]

This seems like a bug in intl-messageformat-parser.

[ericf]

I'll add a change to intl-messageformat-parser which supports the literal backslash char (\) so that it would look something like:

var msg = new IntlMessageFormat('I am a \\\\ backslash');

For the time being, you can use the unicode code point \u005c like this:

var msg = new IntlMessageFormat('I am a \\u005c backslash');