I know that there are escape sequences like \n \b etc in javascript as like in other programming languages.
alert(\j)=>alerts j …So what is the role of \ here?.Which character is escaped?Is it null character?
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I know that there are escape sequences like \n \b etc in javascript as like in other programming languages.
alert(\j)=>alerts j …So what is the role of \ here?.Which character is escaped?Is it null character?
Special characters in JavaScript Strings include
',",\,n,r,t,b, andf, as per JavaScript Special Charactersw3schools. Becausejis not a special character and\is (must itself be escaped to be displayed), it would make sense that the\is simply ignored.\plays no role in"\j".