Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] escape chars
Date: Sunday, 20 Sep 2020, 09:00:39
> Message Posted By: Unknown > > What does it mean to escape a whitespace? > > Is it like x\ y is actually parsed as xy? As stated in the specification, [Escape Characters] The escape character \ removes any special meaning that is associated with the non-null, non-newline character immediately following. This may be used to include whitespace (but not newlines), metacharacters, and single/double quotes in a TEXT token. The escape character is removed. Thus "x\ y" is equivalent to "x y", not "xy". --Stan-PREV INDEX NEXT