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Escape character

In computing and telecommunications, an escape character is a character (more specifically a metacharacter) that, based on a contextual convention, specifies an alternative interpretation of the sequence of characters that follow it. The escape character plus the characters that follow it to form a syntactic unit is called an escape sequence. A…

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Escape character

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Triples82
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025641
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Escape character

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related to ASCII escape character · 14
Escape character → An, ANSI, ANSI X3, ASCII, Bob Bemer's IBM, DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation, For, Hewlett-Packard Printer Command Language, The, The ASCII, This, Typically, VT102
related to External links · 9
Escape character → Archived, Bob Bemer, Federal Standard, General Services Administration, Key, Sequences Archived, That Powerful ESCAPE Character, This, Wayback Machine
related to Programming and data formats · 9
Escape character → Java, Many, Microsoft Rich Text Format, Pascal, Python, Ruby, Some, The, The PostScript
related to Control character · 8
Escape character → An, ASCII, But, Conversely, Generally, If, In, It
related to Communication protocols · 7
Escape character → ASCII, PPP, That, The, The Point-to-Point Protocol, This, XORed
see also · 6
Escape character → AltGr, Escape, Method, Modifier, Quotations, Special
related to Bourne shell · 5
Escape character → Compare, In Bourne, So, This, Without
related to Summary · 5
Escape character → HTML, Point Protocol, PowerShell, These, XML
related to Definition · 3
Escape character → An, Escape, For
related to JavaScript · 3
Escape character → If, Internet Explorer, JavaScript

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character escape characters control sequence used backslash ascii use programming meaning special also languages telecommunications sequences uses key following command

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Escape characteris acharacter0.90text
backslashinstance ofprintable character0.80text
ASCII escape.In telecommunicationsinstance ofcharacter0.80text
an escape character is used to indicate that the following characters are encoded differentlyinstance ofcharacter0.80text
Pascalinstance ofSome languages0.80text
Python allow single-quote characterinstance ofSome languages0.80text
HTMLinstance ofcharacter may be considered as an escape character in SGML and derived formats0.80text
XML.Some programming languages also provide other ways to represent special characters in literalsinstance ofcharacter may be considered as an escape character in SGML and derived formats0.80text
without requiring an escape characterinstance ofcharacter may be considered as an escape character in SGML and derived formats0.80text
Escape characterrelated to ASCII escape characterThe ASCII0.60section
Escape characterrelated to ASCII escape characterTypically0.60section
Escape characterrelated to ASCII escape characterFor0.60section

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