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backslash

(character)

"\" ASCII code 92. Common names: escape (from C/Unix); reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; ITU-T: reverse slant; reversed virgule; INTERCAL: backslat.

Backslash is used to separate components in MS-DOS pathnames, and to introduce special character sequence in C and Unix strings, e.g. "\n" for newline.

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Although in the example at the end of section 5.5 backslashes do not show, the careful reader should have no problem noticing this typographical error.

He crossed out, using the heavy backslashes that he often employed, the last three words of Jefferson's phrase 'We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable' and changed them to the words now enshrined in history: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.'"

You can also use periods (.), backslashes (\) and question marks (?).

There's the frequent use of backslashes (`care/free/less') and bracketed words that show us--gosh--that big words are made up of smaller words, and that it's fun to combine them with an oxymoronic sentence: `The aim of this chapter is to unpick this seamless fabric(ation)'.

The first type is social policy debate and discussion spiced up with lavish sprinkling of Maori words, and which involves using brackets, backslashes and italics within the text.

Web addresses have forward slashes, not backslashes. The URL http://www.joesvolcanoes.com would be correct if the site existed.

No trichords belonging to the same set class partition sc 6-28 so no vertical bars or other indicators appear on thc diagonal in place of the backslashes. Two pairs of invariant set classes are directly connected in this norm: sc 3-6 [024] with sc 3-9 [027], and sc 3-10 [036] with sc 3-12 [048].

One probable explanation for the incident is that fearing future political backslashes, party leaders did not want to be associated too closely with these less-than-legitimate private ventures.

(Two backslashes appear in the translation because SPIDER uses C conventions for string literals.

The first poem of the book, its seventeen lines introduce several key patterns that recur throughout McCrae's collection: most significantly, quick imagistic shifts, interrupted action, and multiple forms of caesurae including inner-linear backslashes and tabbed white spaces that, taken together, orchestrate the abrupt stops punctuating bursts of thought or feeling.