escape code \" prints both \". Anyway to put a " in to a string.?

Question

let ans = stringConcat ["<a href=","\"",str,"\"",">",strr,"</a>"]
                putStr ("\nOutput :" ++show (ans))

when I print this answer is Output :"<a href=\"www.test.com\">testing</a>" I want to know why the extra \ is printing. \" suppose to be the escape code for double quotes. yet again it prints both \". I want to know why this happening and is there any way to put a " is side a string..?

concat function

stringConcat::[String]->String 
stringConcat xs= concat xs 

Answer 1

Don't show a String.

let ans = stringConcat ["<a href=","\"",str,"\"",">",strr,"</a>"]
putStr ("\nOutput :" ++ ans)

Also, what is stringConcat?

Answer 2

Yes, \" is the correct escape code for double quotes, so the string ans contains the double quotes as you expected.

The problem is that you're then using show, which is a function for showing values like they would appear in Haskell code, which means that strings with double quotes in them have to be escaped.

> putStrLn (show "I said \"hello\".")
"I said \"hello\"."

So if you don't want that, just don't use show:

> putStrLn "I said \"hello\"."
I said "hello".