Escape sequence

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.NounAn escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.

"In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n is an escape sequence which represents a newline."

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