User Snippet cannot escape $

[Morgy93]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.11.2 (6eaebe3b9c70406d67c97779468c324a7a95db0e, 2017-04-13T08:03:11.395Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.15063
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Call me crazy, but i am not able to escape $ character:

    "REIP": {
        "prefix": "REIP",
        "body": [
            "if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {",
            "    $0",
            "}"
        ],
        "description": "if IP == my"
    }

Things I tried so far:

"if (\$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {", "Invalid escape character in string"

"if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {", Not even shown +: "if ($$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {", The cursor goes right between SERVER and ['REMOTE_ADDR'] (I don't want it there)

"if (${1:$}_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {", It's a variable then and I also don't want the cursor there.

I don't know other legit ways to get around this .. any help?

[Morgy93]

Of course I found a way right after posting this:

                "body": [
            "if (\\$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == \"1234\") {",
            "    $0",
            "}"
        ],

Works, but doesn't look right.

I leave it open so that someone can confirm if this is intended or not.

[jrieken]

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/25814#issuecomment-298842679 is correct. There is double escaping necessary: (1) escape $ in the snippet-syntax with an backslash \ and (2) escape \ with another backslash in the json-syntax. That make two backslashes