backslash"\" {ASCII} code 92. Common names: escape (from C/Unix); reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; {ITU-T}: reverse slant; reversed virgule; {INTERCAL}: backslat. Backslash is used to separate components in {MS-DOS} {pathnames}, and to introduce special character sequence in {C} and {Unix} strings, e.g. "\n" for newline. (2000-02-21)