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Because if there's a \ you want to skip over the next character, even if it's a ", but if it's not escaped then you want " to be the end of the string.
by zb 12y ago
Because if there's a \ you want to skip over the next character, even if it's a ", but if it's not escaped then you want " to be the end of the string.
- mijoharas 12y agoYou're completely right, I think I had read it as \. rather than \\. and thus didn't understand it. Thanks for helping me get it straight in my head.