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14 May 2024 04:38:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Output_File_Name -- quoted string question  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 13 May 2013 03:14:36
Message: <519092dc$1@news.povray.org>
On 13-5-2013 2:50, Alain wrote:
> The back slash is the escape character in strings. For example, "\n" is
> used as a new line character, if you have \Skies\Pano,
> it get parsed as "\s" "kies" "\p" "ano"
> \s stand for the control character DC3 and \p for DLE
>

Ah yes, of course. Forgot about the rationale of character strings, 
while using them all the time ;-)

Thomas


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