escape character

To transmit the "escape character" itself, two copies are sent.

Generally, the judgement of whether something is an escape character or not depends on context.

Generally, an escape character is not a particular case of (device) control characters, nor vice versa.

One method for avoiding delimiter collision is to use escape characters.

The backslash is used to represent the escape character in a string literal.

It appears that the semicolon acts as an escape character of sorts.

Other languages use an escape character, often the backslash, as in .

In some cases, escape characters (and other methods) are used to avoid delimiter collision.

An escape character may not have its own meaning, so all escape sequences are of 2 or more characters.

The quoted-printable encoding uses the equals sign as an escape character.

It uses escape codes, a command starts with the escape character.

An escape character is a particular case of metacharacters.

Note the use of double backslashes, because C++ uses backslash as an escape character.

Escaped characters are preceded by a dollar sign.

It is thus an escape character.

Escape characters are part of the syntax for many programming languages, data formats and communication protocols.

QP works by using the equals sign "" as an escape character.

The traditional method of resolving the ambiguity is to observe whether or not another character quickly follows the escape character.

But escape characters used in programming (see below) are graphic, hence are not control characters.

In many programming languages, an escape character also forms some escape sequences which are referred to control characters.

These are used to escape characters that are markup sensitive in certain contexts:

Some implementations also offer varying support for an escape character, typically with the backslash ().

However, if it is in fact a string then the end-user may manipulate the statement as they choose, thereby bypassing the need for escape characters.

When an escape character is inside a string literal, it means "this is the start of the escape sequence".

Other languages related to HTML have their own methods of escaping characters.