capture special characters ! in echo command for zsh

Question

I am trying to capture a string in mac terminal zsh

when i try

echo "abc1234!"      

It would prompt for dquote>

I have tried adding a additional quote like this

echo "abc1234!""

Output

abc1234

how do i capture ! character in the string ??

Answer 1

Either turn off history expansion with

setopt nobanghist

, or escape the !character:

echo "abc1234\!"