# How to get escaping in a custom string macro to work?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-escaping-in-a-custom-string-macro-to-work/49709
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-escaping-in-a-custom-string-macro-to-work/49709 "2020-11-06T22:18:46Z")
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### Author:  [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-escaping-in-a-custom-string-macro-to-work/49709/1 "2020-11-06T22:18:46Z")
I have a little string macro as follows
```julia
macro Q_str(p)
esc(:(println(Crayon(foreground = :light_cyan ), $p)))
end
```
Basically I can just write
```julia
Q"""
This is a multi-line string. Printed in light cyan
"""
```
It’s nice cause I can get a note-book-like workflow with very low effort and keep the REPL etc.
Problem, string escaping behaves differently in my `Q_str` macro
```julia
julia> x = Q"""
The value of x is
$(x)
"""
The value of x is
$(x)
```
Does anyone know how I can get all the string escaping for normal multi-line strings to behave the same?
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### Author:  [@johnmyleswhite](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnmyleswhite)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-escaping-in-a-custom-string-macro-to-work/49709/2 "2020-11-06T23:44:01Z")
This is the same issue as handling escaping in expressions as well, no? Basically the macro runs pre-substitution, so it falls on you to replicate the logic AFAICT.
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### Author:  [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-escaping-in-a-custom-string-macro-to-work/49709/3 "2020-11-07T00:50:35Z")
Ah darn, I guess `@Q md"""` as a shorthand is gooe enought.