Escape?

Question

What does it mean when it says escape?

Answer 1

👇 If u r referring to escape sequence
https://www.sololearn.com/learn/Ruby/2762/?ref=app

Answer 2

In what context? Often escape is used to allow you to use a certain character that has a special meaning just as a normal character. Like to use the ? without it’s meaning in regular expressions, you would write \?