Escape Character

• In alphabet coding schemes, a specially designated character, the occurrence of which in the data signifies that one or more of the characters to follow are from a different character code, i.e., have meanings other than normal.
• In a text-control sequence of characters, a control character that indicates the beginning of the sequence and the end of any preceding text. This is for instance used to control character terminals and printers (see escape sequence).
• In the ASCII character code, the character ESC with decimal code 27 and hexadecimal code 1B.

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