escape character
Disables special meaning
An escape character is a character that changes how the following character is interpreted in computing.
A backslash before a quotation mark tells the system to treat it as a literal quote rather than a command.
Escape characters let programmers include special symbols in strings that would otherwise have functional meaning: Use \n for a newline.
Leftward-slanting diagonal character
- delimiterBoundary-marking character
- control codeNonprintable computing instruction
- newlineText formatting character
- carriage returnCursor-to-margin command
tab · regex · regular expression · ASCII · hexadecimal · octal · syntax · parser
Symbol for "and"
- angle bracketsPaired pointy enclosure marks
- quotation markPunctuation framing direct speech
- apostropheMark showing ownership
- LaTeXTechnical document preparation system
Leftward-slanting diagonal character
- caretSymbol marking insertions
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- pipeHollow conveyance channel
- asteriskTypographical reference mark
hash · underscore · percent · ampersand · brackets · parentheses · braces · quotation marks
backslash
Leftward-slanting diagonal character
- delimiterBoundary-marking character
- control codeNonprintable computing instruction
- newlineText formatting character
carriage return · tab · regex · regular expression · ASCII · hexadecimal · octal · syntax · parser · scripting
ampersand
Symbol for "and"
- angle bracketsPaired pointy enclosure marks
- quotation markPunctuation framing direct speech
- apostropheMark showing ownership
backslash
Leftward-slanting diagonal character
asterisk · hash · underscore · percent · ampersand · brackets · parentheses · braces · quotation marks · apostrophe
- ASCII characterscomma, period, space, question mark, exclamation mark
- escape sequencesbackslash, newline, tab, carriage return, backspace
- Regex Symbolsasterisk, caret, dollar sign, dot, pipe
- shell scriptingbash, shebang, scripts, source, sourcing
- charactersprotagonist, antagonist, hero, characters, villain
- language elementsnoun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun
escape characterspecial character
Non-letter, non-digit typographic mark
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