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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package microprom_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"go.xyrillian.de/gg/assert"
+	"go.xyrillian.de/gg/microprom"
+)
+
+func TestFormatLabels(t *testing.T) {
+	ms := microprom.NewMetricSet(microprom.SyntaxOpenMetricsV1, nil)
+
+	// the basic example from the documentation
+	names := microprom.NewLabelNames("foo", "hello")
+	labels := ms.FormatLabels(names, "bar", "world")
+	assert.Equal(t, labels, `foo="bar",hello="world"`)
+
+	// test escaping label values
+	labels = ms.FormatLabels(names, "bar\\\n\\bar", `"universe\world"`)
+	assert.Equal(t, labels, `foo="bar\\\n\\bar",hello="\"universe\\world\""`)
+}