backslash
suomi-englanti sanakirjabackslash englanniksi
(non-gloss definition)
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{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Lee Vance|title=The Garden of Betrayal|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=CXzvPfYaJWsC&pg=PA25&dq=backslash|page=25|publisher=Random House|year_published=2011|isbn=978-0-307-39035-6
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Frank Barnas; Ted White|title=Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing|publisher=Fifth Edition, Elsevier|isbn=0080953972|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=IZoOxPievkYC&pg=PT205&dq=backslashes|page=114
To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an character, thereby forming an sequence.
(l)