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What is the string literal \\ backslash? What does it do? I have thought about it but I do not understand it. I also read it on wikipedia. When I try to print the following:
System.out.println("Mango \\ Nightangle");
the output is: Mango \ Nightangle
What is the significance of this string literal?
\is used as for escape sequence in many programming languages, including Java.If you want to
\nor\r,\t\or"which are special in string literal you have to escape it with another\which gives us\\and\"