Backslash
The backslash (English, composed of: back = back and slash = slash ) - also known less commonly, backslash, backslash, "left side ", " reverse " or " backslash character " - is the character "\".
The backslash is located on the German keyboard on the same key as the ß ( sharp s ) and can be generated ß with the key combination Alt Gr.
On the Swiss keyboard it is located in the
Under DOS and Microsoft Windows, it is the separator of directories in a path;
among Korean locale, the separator is shown, however, than ₩ ( Wonzeichen ) or under Japanese locale than ¥ ( yen character) instead of \.
In addition, \ stands for the root directory on VMS, DOS and Windows.
In some programming languages, such as C, C and related the backslash is used as an escape character to represent special characters ( for example, " \ n" for a newline ), and Visual Basic, it performs an integer division by.
In the Unix shell, and a few other line-oriented programming languages , the backslash is used to mask special characters.
Thus, the line break is, for example, at the end of a line masked by the input and thus combines several lines of text to a logical line.
The inclusion in the ASCII standard ( position 92 decimal) was proposed by Bob Bemer.
The backslash is used as a delimiter, because it is rare in texts.
In set theory, a backslash is used as a symbol for forming a difference amount.
means, for example " A without B".
In Unicode, there are for the difference of the characters own character U 2216 ( Set Minus) " ∖ ".
Representation in computer systems
Credentials