OpenEuphoria

Re: Now for some actual euphoria/linux questions...

• Posted by "Rev. Ferlin Scarborough" <ferlin at SANDW.NET> Apr 17, 2000
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:11:09 -0400, Bernie Ryan <xotron at BUFFNET.NET> wrote:

>When the program sees \ ( the escape character ) in a text string,
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>  it looks at the next character following \ and expects it to have a
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>  special meaning, like \n it sees \ then sees the n which means to go
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>  to a new line. If the program sees \ followed by a character that
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>  has no special meaning then you will get an error so to tell the
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>  program that you really want to use the \ then you use \\ and the
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>  the program sees the first \ followed by another \ which has the
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>  special meaning to the program that you want to use the single slash \
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> Bernie

COOL, how you said that without stuttering!!!