English-Lithuanian translations for escape character
Definition of escape character
- A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term ''escape sequence'refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified
Examples
- In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n represents a newline.
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