Escape character
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escape-character-179-2608875
title:
Escape character
text:
In computing and telecommunications, an escape character is a character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the following characters in a character sequence. An escape character is a particular case of metacharacters. Generally, the judgement of whether something is an escape character or not depends on the context. In the telecommunications field, escape characters are used to indicate that the following characters are encoded differently. This is used to alter control characters that
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Character used to quote special-purpose characters, e.g. '\'
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:50:43Z
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