So, when in doubt, if you're having some weird character issue, odds are you need to escape it in some way.

如果你有拿不准的字符,可能就要用到转义字符了。

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It gets really kind of trippy if you wanna output a backslash, \ you can't just use the backslash, \\ you need to use backslash backslash because otherwise a single backslash is confused with the so called escape character.

如果你想输出一个反斜杠，估计又得迷糊了，实际上，你不能直接用，而是要,否则一个\可能会被误认为,是转义字符。

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If you want to escape certain characters, you need to use these so-called escape sequences.

如果你想与其他字符隔开，你就要用到所谓的转义字符。

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But there're others, backslash T. Folks in the consulting world and finance world like to share files in Excel format or in Text format that looks like Excel.

还有一些其他的转义字符，譬如\t，顾问界，财政界的,人们很喜欢用Excel文档,或类似于Excel的文本文件。

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So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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