Using "\" individually without string commands

I'm trying to see if a string is equal to "\"; but that is obviously trying to run a string command like \n and thinks that the string is unfinished. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

You're probably searching for something like this:

if yourString == "\\" then
  --# Do stuff
end

A single backslash would indicate that the " is escaped. This way you would escape the backslash and check if the string is equal to the latter.

That's exactly what I was searching for.