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alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	print("\"); print("\\"); Jun 17th, 2007, 11:46am   I noticed that print("\"); doesn't work, but print("\\"); will print "\" Why ? the "\" must stand for something else, but I don't see it in the references.

Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35	Re: print("\"); print("\\"); Reply #1 - Jun 17th, 2007, 1:15pm   Backslash \ is the Escape_character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Escape_sequences_and_escape_characters#Java println(""error"");

seltar Senior Member Offline Posts: 475	Re: print("\"); print("\\"); Reply #2 - Jun 17th, 2007, 1:15pm   To be able to use the character " or ' within itself, you must "escape" that character. That is done with a single slash. i.e print("\""); prints a single ", as print('\''); will output ' print("seltar said: \"Hey man, this is a quote\", and you thought \"cool\"");
	I'm bored, therefore I program http://seltar.org  > seltar's special place http://snippet.seltar.org > seltar's snippet palace http://libraries.seltar.org > seltar's libraries

alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	Re: print("\"); print("\\"); Reply #3 - Jun 17th, 2007, 8:50pm   Thanks for the answers, that explains everything. "I'm bored, therefore I program" is better than "I program, therefore I'm bored"