How to escape special characters in the key of properties file?

Question

I\'ve got a key = value property in the .properties file:

give names: (1) code = xxx

... but when I tried to get that key, it

Answer 1

In my case, two leading '\\' working fine for me.

For example : if your word contains the '$' character (e.g. Rf$RF, you can escape it with two leading '\\'