Your regex will work fine if you escape the regular metacharacters inside a character class, but doing so significantly reduces readability. To include a backslash as a character without any …

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 …

Jan 31, 2024 · Difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\) in file path Asked 9 years, 4 months ago Modified 8 months ago Viewed 149k times

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.

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.

I know some of the escape characters in Java, e.g. \n : Newline \r : Carriage return \t : Tab \\ : Backslash ... Is there a complete list somewhere?

\r is a carriage return character; it tells your terminal emulator to move the cursor at the start of the line. The cursor is the position where the next characters will be rendered. So, printing a \r …

\n New line \r Carriage return \t Tab \" Double quote \\ Backslash character However, even if it is totally contrary to the spec, the author could use \'. This is bad because : It IS contrary to the …

May 26, 2017 · 15 There is in fact one place where back slashes do need to be escaped (or at least treated specially) in SQL Server. When a backslash immediately precedes a new line in …

Sep 1, 2015 · I was looking for HTML entity to replace the backslash characters in file pathes displayed on my webpages. Unfortunately, my Chrome displays both entities \ \ and \ \ as …