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title: raw string literal
reference: https://go.dev/ref/spec#String_literals
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A _raw string literal_ is a character sequence between backticks, as in `` `bar` ``. Within the backticks, any character may appear except a backtick. Backslashes have no special meaning and the string may contain newlines. Carriage return characters (`\r`) inside raw string literals are discarded from the raw string value.
