ASCII Character /
Slash or divideThe slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark /. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent exclusive or inclusive or, division and fractions, and as a date separator. It is called a solidus in Unicode, is also known as an oblique stroke, and has several other historical or technical names including oblique and virgule. As a very common character, the slash (as "slant") was originally encoded in ASCII with the decimal code 47 or 0x2F.
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ASCII Code for /
These are the code points for slash or divide in various character setsUnicode for /
The character for slash or divide is mapped in Unicode as U+002F| Unicode | U+002F | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 47 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u002f | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2F | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 00101111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x002F | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002F | |
HTML Entities for /
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the slash or divide in HTML| HTML Number | / | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | / | |
| HTML Entity | / | |
Related characters
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| * | Asterisk |
| + | Plus |
| < | Less than (or open angled bracket) |
| = | Equals |
| > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) |
| × | Multiplication sign |
| ÷ | Division sign |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %2F | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =2F |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002F" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \002F | |
| JavaScript | "\u002F" | |
| Perl | \x{002F} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002F" | |
| Python 3 | \u002F | |
| Ruby | \u{002F} |