Is there a Way to escape a Backslash in a Formula?
What I Want:
Concatenate("\\",“somestring”) ⤑ “\somestring”
What Happens:
Concatenate("\\",“somestring”) ⤑ “\\somestring”
I Found a Workaround:
Concatenate(Left("\",1),“somestring”)
But is there a nicer way?
Hi @Stephan_Graf ,
It is not entirely clear to me what is your need.
Anyway, you can even try with Format()
Format("\{1}", "somestring")
or even
Format("\somestring")
If you don’t have variables.
Did I get your point…? 
Hello @Stephan_Graf ,
“” does indeed not work as expected, although I get a different result, not the “****”.
You can try: Concatenate(char(92),"string") which gives you the expected result: \string
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Hi Federico
Yes my need was to put a backslash before some word. So you workaround does the trick. Also I learned a new formula: format. So thanks for that! 
I still wonder tgough if there is a way to write/escape a backslash in a string.
but for now this works thanks.
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Hi joost
thanks for the reply.
I just now sawt that my code got misformatted by the forum. now its correct.
also thanks for the workaround.