# Test Issue with "Backslash within single quotes #le5" for Go

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**Category:** Challenges\
**Tags:** challenge:shell\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/test-issue-with-backslash-within-single-quotes-le5-for-go/9166 "2025-04-21T17:48:58Z")\
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Because that is how the bash shell parses it.

Read number #2 on [Shell Operation (Bash Reference Manual)](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Operation.html). “Tokens” are separated by (unquoted) metacharacters, but `"` is not a metacharacter, so `"test""example"` resolves to the piece `test` followed by `example`, and since there is no space (metacharacter) between they become one single token `testexample`.

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