Meaning of escape character | Babel Free

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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.

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

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