What is a backslash for?

Question

Won't the text be the same without the backslash(\)?

Answer 1

The backslash escape character turns special characters into string characters, and can also be used to insert other special characters in a string.

\' single quote
\" double quote
\\ backslash
\n new line
\r carriage return
\t tab
\b backspace
\f form feed

Answer 2

Backslash is used for escaping illegal characters like " and ', because without the backslash they can end a string and leave some of the text outside the quotes, what will cause errors.

Answer 3

Zen got it down pretty straight forward

Answer 4

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