Character Escaping

Table of Contents

• What is character escaping?
• When to use character escaping
• Commonly used escape sequences
• Examples

What is character escaping?

Character escaping is a technique used to represent characters that have special meaning in a particular context. For example, in programming languages, the backslash (\) character is used to escape special characters, such as newlines and quotation marks.

When to use character escaping

Character escaping is typically used in the following situations:

• When using the embed parser
• When wanting to use specific characters within functions that would be normally not allowed

Commonly used escape sequences

The following table shows some commonly used escape sequences:

CHARACTER	ESCAPED	ALTERNATIVE
[	#RIGHT#	\[
]	#LEFT#	\]
;	#SEMI#	\;
:	#COLON#	\:
$	#CHAR#	\$
<	#RIGHT_CLICK#	\<
>	#LEFT_CLICK#	\>
=	#EQUAL#	\=
{	#RIGHT_BRACKET#	\{
}	#LEFT_BRACKET#	\}
,	#COMMA#
&&	#AND#	\&\&
||	#OR#	\\\\
NEW LINE		\n

Examples

Here are some examples of character escaping:

• The #RIGHT# escape sequence is used to represent the [ character.
• The \n escape sequence is used to represent a newline character.