How to use apostrophe (') in xpath while finding element using webdriver?

Question

I need to use apostrophe (\') in my xpath expression which i need to use in finding elements using webdriver

i need to use below Xpath expression

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Answer 1

I Encountered a similar situation where I need to write an xpath for an element shown below:

Element:

I was able to grep the element using below Xpath, where I used the backslash to escape the characters [ and ".

Xpath : //img[@data-ctl='\[\"DatePicker\"\]']

Hope this helps.