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Kotlinpoet: How do you MemberName with string templates? I want to use a member of an object: `println("Hello ${Foo.bar}")` but I get `println("Hello $Foo.bar")` which is wrong.

```import com.squareup.kotlinpoet.*

object Foo {
    val bar = "World"
}

val member = MemberName(ClassName("", "Foo"), "bar")

val function = FunSpec.builder("main")
function.addStatement("println(\"HELLO $%M\")", member)

function.build().toString()

// expected:
fun main() {
    println("HELLO ${Foo.bar}")
}```
Do I have to add the brackets by myself? Or do you know some string template function?

Imo yes, just like you added the dollar sign

I like to do
```"""println("HELLO ＄{%M}")""".replace('＄', '$')```
to reduce the amount of escaping required

Okay, I already check if the member contains a enclosing class and add the brackets if needed.

kotlinpoet doesn't parse the expression so it doesn't know that it's inserting inside a string literal, but you do

Yeah, escaping the $ is annoying. Sure it is safe to add the brackets but I don't like them for "single" variables

also you would want to use `·` (which kotlinpoet replaces with   space) to ensure that linewrapping doesn't happen in the middle of your string

also IIRC
```.addStatement("println(%P)", CodeBlock.of("HELLO \${%M}", member))```
works to reduce the amount of quoting inside quoting

Wait, you can use \$? I didn't know this, nice!
Yes, this was only a reproducer. My real code is quite complex and uses many code blocks

If you’re in triple quotes it gets a little more complicated and you’ll need:
```"""Hello ${'$'}"""```
iirc :stuck_out_tongue:

`"""Hello ${"$"}"""` this works too no need for the single quotes

```"""Hello \$""" == "Hello \\\$" == "Hello " + '\\' + '$'
"Hello \$" == "Hello " + '$' == """Hello ${'$'}"""```

Oh, you are right. `\$` only works with normal quotes, not with triple quotes. What a mess :smile:

Actually it’s
```"""hello \$""" == ("hello " + "\\" + "$")```