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Backslash

The backslash \ is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash ('solidus'), /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and…

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U+002F / SOLIDUS

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Triples115
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
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related to Confusion with ¥ and other characters · 23
Backslash → Although, ASCII, Computer, Danish, Due, French, German, In, ISO, Japanese, JIS, JP, Korean, MS Mincho, MS-DOS, Norwegian, REVERSE SOLIDUS, Several, Shift JIS, Spanish
related to Filenames · 21
Backslash → APIs, COM, COMMAND, DIR, DIR/W, Except, IBM, In, Internet, Microsoft, Microsoft's, MS-DOS, Possibly, Resources, Some, SWITCHAR, The, The Microsoft Windows, Typing, Unix
related to history · 20
Backslash → ALGOL Boolean, American Standard, ASCII, Extended, IBM, IBM's Bob Bemer, In, In June, In September, Kleinschmidt, Morse, Neither, November, Teletype, Teletype Corporation, The Committee, What, Wheatstone, WPE-3, X3
related to Unicode · 14
Backslash → BIG REVERSE SOLIDUSU, BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL, FE68, FF3C, FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUSU, OCR DOUBLE BACKSLASHU, REVERSE SOLIDUS, REVERSE SOLIDUS OPERATORU, RIGHTU, SET MINUSU, SMALL REVERSE SOLIDUSU, Unicode, UPPER LEFT TO LOWER, VERY HEAVY REVERSE SOLIDUS
related to Programming languages · 9
Backslash → An, For, In, JSON, Perl, PHP, Python, Regular, Unix
related to Text markup · 5
Backslash → Bible, In USFM, RTF, TeX, The
related to External links · 3
Backslash → Archived, Bob Bemer, How ASCII
In Unicode · 1
Backslash → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+005C \ REVERSE SOLIDUS (\)
See also · 1
Backslash → U+002F / SOLIDUS
related to Mathematics · 1
Backslash → The

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used character slash characters reverse unix unicode code called solidus ascii ms-dos may system use escape mark 005c symbol set

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BackslashIn Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+005C \ REVERSE SOLIDUS (\)1.00infobox
BackslashSee alsoU+002F / SOLIDUS1.00infobox
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Perlinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
PHPinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
Pythoninstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
Unix scripting languagesinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
and in many file formats such as JSONinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
the backslash is used as an escape characterinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
to indicate that the character following it should be treated speciallyinstance ofUsageProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
Cinstance ofProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text
Perlinstance ofProgramming languagesIn many programming languages0.80text

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