ASCII Character \
BackslashThe backslash \ is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. In many programming languages such as C, Perl, PHP, Python, Unix scripting languages, and many file formats such as JSON, the backslash is used as an escape character, to indicate that the character following it should be treated specially (if it would otherwise be treated literally), or literally (if it would otherwise be treated specially).
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ASCII Code for \
These are the code points for backslash in various character setsUnicode for \
The character for backslash is mapped in Unicode as U+005C| Unicode | U+005C | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 92 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u005c | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5C | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011100 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 01011100 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x005C | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000005C | |
HTML Entities for \
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the backslash in HTML| HTML Number | \ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | \ | |
| HTML Entity | \ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %5C | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =5C |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u005C" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \005C | |
| JavaScript | "\u005C" | |
| Perl | \x{005C} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u005C" | |
| Python 3 | \u005C | |
| Ruby | \u{005C} |