Error whilst JSON decoding string containing an escaped double quote

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I’m trying to decode a string containing an escaped double quote, e.g. “I said, “Hello””

Now to do that in Elm, I may use Json.Decode as Decode:
Decode.decodeString Decode.string "\"I said, \"Hello\"\""

However, this is causing the decoder to fail. Can anyone explain why? I’d like to know how to have double quotes in my JSON string.

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When you escape the quotes like that you’re ending up with:

"I said, "Hello""

And that’s not valid JSON, so you will need to escape the quotes and the backslashes:

"\"I said, \\\"Hello\\\""
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Thank you so much, I got what I was doing wrong!