BACKSLASH

Backslash

The backslash is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and is the mirror image of the common slash . It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape, reverse slash, slosh, backslant, backwhack, and in rare occasions, bash, reverse slant, and reversed virgule. In Unicode, it is encoded at .

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backslash

Noun

  1. The punctuation mark \.

Verb

  1. To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.


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