Top "Backslash" questions

The backslash character \ (not to be confused with slash /) is used in many languages to quote the next character, i.e. to make it lose its special meaning.

Why I need to double-escape (use 4 \) to find a backslash ( \ ) in pure SQL?

I do not understand this MySQL behaviour : if I want to display a\b, I can just select "a\\b" …

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Why do I have to use double backslashes for file-paths in code?

In my program I'm trying to open a file, for example C:\unescaped\backslashes.txt, but it fails to open! …

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Replacing = with '\x' and then decoding in python

I fetched the subject of an email message using python modules and received string '=D8=B3=D9=84=D8=A7=…

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