Escape Sequences for Special Characters : Escape « Regular Expression « Perl






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Escape Sequences for Special Characters

    

To include a backslash in a pattern, specify two backslashes: 
/\\+/ 

This pattern tests for one or more occurrences of \ in a string.








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