escape sequence

English

Noun

escape sequence (plural escape sequences)

1. (computing, telecommunications) An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.

   In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n is an escape sequence which represents a newline.

Translations

escape character together with subsequent characters

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉義序列／转义序列 (zhuǎnyì xùliè)

• Finnish: koodinvaihtojakso
• German: Escape-Sequenz f
• Greek: ακολουθία διαφυγής f (akolouthía diafygís)
• Italian: sequenza alternativa f
• Japanese: エスケープシーケンス (esukēpu shīkensu)
• Korean: 이스케이프 시퀀스 (iseukeipeu sikwonseu), 탈출열(脫出列) (talchuryeol)

Further reading

• escape sequence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia