illegal string body character after dollar sign

Question

if i define a groovy variable

def x = \"anish$\"

it will throw me error, the fix is

def x = \"anish\\$\"

Answer 1

You can use octal representation. the character $ represents 044 in octal, then:
def x = 'anish\044'
or
def x = 'anish\044'

For example, in Java i did use like this:
def x = 'anish\044'