an actual double quote rather than the special meaning of the double quote ending the string. An actual backslash is produced by a double backslash .

Regular expression languages used it the same way, changing subsequent literal characters into metacharacters and vice versa. For instance searches for either '|' or 'b', the first bar is escaped and searched for, the second is not escaped and acts as an "or".

Outside quoted strings, the only common

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