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Hi. I'm probably missing some basic essential stuff, if so could someone please point me into a correct direction?
I have a string `"aaa\"aaa"`. When I evaluate an expression while in debug and check the length of the string, then it shows it is 8.
But checking the same in the scratch file - it shows length equal to 7. Why is it so? What am I missing?

One of them contains an embedded `"` character that is being displayed as `\"`, whereas the other (longer) one contains `\"`.

Exactly what Chris said. It's an unfortunate coincidence of the fact the debugger displays string values by simply putting their `toString` representation inside quotes, which gives them the misleading resemblance to string literals.