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escape character

noun

Etymology

From escape + character.

  1. derived from χαρακτήρ
  2. derived from character
  3. derived from caractere
  4. derived from caracter
  5. compounded as escape character — “escape + character”

Definitions

  1. A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters…

    A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for escape character. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA