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\ (Backslash) (Delimiter)

A means of escaping a character in quoted strings and regular expressions.

Availability:

ECMAScript edition - 2

JavaScript - 1.0

JScript - 1.0

Internet Explorer - 3.02

Netscape - 2.0

Netscape Enterprise Server- 2.0

Opera - 3.0

Refer to:

ECMA 262 edition 2 - section - 2

ECMA 262 edition 2 - section - 6

ECMA 262 edition 2 - section - 7.7.3

ECMA 262 edition 3 - section - 2

ECMA 262 edition 3 - section - 6

ECMA 262 edition 3 - section - 7.7

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