Nov 23, 2010 · 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 …

Aug 23, 2012 · The backslash itself is an escape character so it must be escaped by itself to print just one backslash. Other than that, there is no particular significance to it.

Jul 18, 2016 · Difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\) in file path Asked 9 years, 5 months ago Modified 10 months ago Viewed 150k times

Oct 16, 2013 · Backslashes denote two different things in C++, depending on the context. As A Line Continuation Outside of a quotes string (see below), a \ is used as a line continuation …

158 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 …

In C# you can use the backslash to put special characters to your string. For example, to put ", you need to write \". There are a lot of characters that you write using the backslash: …

Jun 17, 2011 · I have seen '\\0' to be used as a delimiter in mixed binary files (UTF8 strings + binary data). Could anyone explain what '\\0' means or point to a good place to study?

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 …

The backslash \ is the actual Windows path-component separator. However, Windows performs a number of path-normalization steps on most paths that it receives via its API.

The reason of this is because backslash is considered as an escape character for special characters (like \n for instance). Moreover replaceAll first arg is a regular expression that also …