Adding token to httpheaderfield and escape character passing through

I have a token which contains \" in the string. When i print this string, the slash doesn't appear but quotation mark does. Which is correct.

token = "hhgghhgg\"hhgghhgg"
print -> hhgghhgg"hhgghhgg

request.setValue(token, forHTTPHeaderField: "API-Token")

When i add this token to the header field, the backslash for some reason passes through.

print all headers -> API-Token": "hhgghhgg\"hhgghhgg"

Im not sure if this is expected behaviour or an error.

Any help will be appreciated

many thanks

Solution

your code is correct and this is just some strange print behaviour. if you use a playground you can see that everything works as expected.