Jan 1, 2015 · The backslash \ is a character, just like the letter A, the comma ,, and the number 4. In some programming languages, notably C and its descendants (and maybe ancestors), it is used inside a string or character literal to escape other characters.

Aug 23, 2012 · Thus, if you want to print a backslash, \, you can't have it on its own since the compiler will be expecting a special character (such as the ones above). Thus, to print a backslash, you need to escape it, since itself is also one of these special characters, thus, \\ yields \.

Oct 16, 2013 · Within a quotes string, a backslash is used as a delimiter to begin a 2-character escape sequence. For example: "hello\n" In this string literal, the \ begins an escape sequence, with the escape code being n. \n results in a newline character being embedded in the string.

Jul 20, 2016 · If you are programming for instance, it is inconvenient at times to need to even need to escape backslash with another one (\\) in order to use it properly - or need to use escaping strings, such as C# @"\test".

Sep 1, 2015 · ∖ is in fact ∖ (U+2216), which is encoded (if I enunciate this correct) on my Windows with hex E2 88 96. – MattTT Commented Oct 23, 2023 at 12:49

Nov 14, 2013 · The escape sequence \uXXXX is part of the language's syntax and represents a single Unicode character. By contrast, @"\u" and "0000" are two different strings, with a total of six characters.

The backslash ("\") character is a special escape character used to indicate other special characters such as new lines (\n), tabs (\t), or quotation marks (\"). If you want to include a backslash character itself, you need two backslashes or use the @ verbatim string:

In JavaScript, the backslash has special meaning both in string literals and in regular expressions. If you want an actual backslash in the string or regex, you have to write two: \\. The following string starts with one backslash, the first one you see in the literal is an escape character starting an escape sequence.

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Yes, you can escape the " using a backslash: string test = "He said to me, \"Hello World\" . How are you?"; Otherwise you have to use verbatim string literals as you have. The string has not changed in either case - there is a single escaped " in it. This is just a way to tell C# that the character is part of the string and not a string terminator.