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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program Escape Sequence

David Kozlík
David Kozlík
756 Points
Posted by David Kozlík
David Kozlík
756 Points

Backslash

backslash. Why the second backslash is before double quotes insted of behind them ?

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

What do you mean?

Atul Varma
Atul Varma
4,285 Points

Because " is special character and to parse it, we have to use 2nd \ before " just as we did for 1st "

1 Answer

Michael Sagnes
Michael Sagnes
4,057 Points
Michael Sagnes
Michael Sagnes
4,057 Points

Double backslash can be used to prevent escaping of characters.

I.e: Double backslash will print "Hello World\n" rather than "Hello World" with a new line.