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See also: ∖ [U+2216 SET MINUS], 丶 [U+4E36 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36], ₩ [U+20A9 WON SIGN], and ¥ [U+00A5 YEN SIGN]
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Translingual
Symbol
\
- (computing) A common prefix for escape characters.
- (computing) A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.
- Coordinate term: /
- (regular expressions) Matches what the nth marked subexpression matched using parentheses: ( ).
\7
matches the 7th subexpression
Usage notes
- Usually called the backslash.
- Most operating systems use the slash ⟨/⟩ as a pathname component separator. This is by no means comprehensive however; PRIMOS and Multics for example used ⟨>⟩. Microsoft OSes, such as Windows and DOS, are the major ones which use backslash as the separator, for historical reasons.[1]
See also
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
Further reading
References
- ^ Larry Osterman (2005 June 24) “Why is the DOS path character "\"?”, in Larry Osterman's WebLog[1], archived from the original on 2010-06-12
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