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  2. Backslash - Wikipedia

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    The backslash \ is a mark used ... Perl, PHP, Python and Unix ... and the sequence \" produces an actual double quote rather than the special meaning of the double ...

  3. Escape character - Wikipedia

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    The backslash (\) escape character typically provides two ways to include double-quotes inside a string literal, either by modifying the meaning of the double-quote character embedded in the string (\" becomes "), or by modifying the meaning of a sequence of characters including the hexadecimal value of a double-quote character (\x22 becomes ").

  4. Escape sequence - Wikipedia

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    In C and many derivative programming languages, a string escape sequence is a series of two or more characters, starting with a backslash \. [3]Note that in C a backslash immediately followed by a newline does not constitute an escape sequence, but splices physical source lines into logical ones in the second translation phase, whereas string escape sequences are converted in the fifth ...

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Backslash: Slash, Solidus (/) ` Backtick (non-Unicode name) ('Backtick' is an alias for the grave accent symbol) ‱ Basis point (per ten thousand) Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) ∵: Because sign: Therefore sign [ ] { } Brackets: Angle bracket, Parenthesis • Bullet: Interpunct ‸ ⁁ ⎀ Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^) Chevron ...

  6. String literal - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Python, raw strings are preceded by an r or R – compare 'C:\\Windows' with r'C:\Windows' (though, a Python raw string cannot end in an odd number of backslashes). Python 2 also distinguishes two types of strings: 8-bit ASCII ("bytes") strings (the default), explicitly indicated with a b or B prefix, and Unicode strings ...

  7. Leaning toothpick syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, leaning toothpick syndrome (LTS) is the situation in which a quoted expression becomes unreadable because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes ("\"), to avoid delimiter collision.

  8. Illegal character - Wikipedia

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    To avoid illegal characters, some languages may use an escape character which is a backslash followed by another character. [2] Examples. Windows. In the ...

  9. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure.It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory.