escape sequence
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
escape sequence (plural escape sequences)
- (computing, telecommunications) An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.
- In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example,
\n
is an escape sequence which represents a newline.
Translations[edit]
escape character together with subsequent characters
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Further reading[edit]
- escape sequence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia