[thelist] [JavaScript] Avoid Escaping Characters

[Scott Brady]

Original Message:
> From: Hershel Robinson <hershelr at netvision.net.il>

> Some languages have a method to define a string literal wherein what would
> normally be an escape character is not treated as such, rather the escape
> character is taken literally. So \n would be two characters, not one special
> one.
> 
> Does such a feature exist in JavaScript? I am not aware of one.

I haven't tried this, but did you try "\\n"?  (where "\\" should escape the "\" and display it as a \)

Scott

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