Makes any character literal

\

This may be used to obtain the literal value of any metacharacter.

Examples

Match Sample:

match \w literally

Regex Example:

\\w

JAVASCRIPT PYTHON PCRE

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<code class="regex-token">\</code> - Makes any character literal
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