java - What is the backslash character (\)?

Question

What is the string literal \ backslash? What does it do? I have thought about it but I do not understand it. I also read it on wikipedia. When I try to print the following:

System.out.println("Mango \ Nightangle");

the output is: Mango Nightangle

What is the significance of this string literal?

Answer 1

is used as for escape sequence in many programming languages, including Java.

If you want to

• go to next line then use or ,
• for tab use
• likewise to print a or " which are special in string literal you have to escape it with another which gives us \ and "