Escape Sequences

Part of TutorialIntermediate

Description

Escape sequence are useful, but they can get tricky.

Demonstrates how to use escaping to put backslashes and apostrophes for a literal character.

Example

import std.stdio;

const string backslashWYSIWYG = `\`;
const string quoteWYSIWYG = `'`;
const string doubleQuoteWYSIWYG = `"`;

const string doubleQuoteReg = "\"";
const string quoteReg = "\'";
const string backslashReg = "\\";

const char quoteChar = '\'';
const char backslashChar = '\\';

const string rawString = r"\\\";

void main()
{
    writeln(doubleQuoteReg ~ "That's what I said!" ~ doubleQuoteReg);  
    writeln("raw string: ", rawString);
}

Note that you can use the r"literalstring" form to stop treating backlash as an escape sequence character.

Partial Source

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Author	jcc7