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<div><h1>/// -- delineate a string with slashes</h1>
<div>This method for entering a string involves no escape characters, so it can be used for easily inserting large chunks of text into a string without treating the characters <tt>\</tt> and <tt>"</tt> specially. A series of more than 3 slashes can be represented within the string by doubling all but the last two, and a series of 1 or more slashes can be represented at the end of the string by doubling each of them; this allows an arbitrary string to be represented.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : /// \ " ///
o1 = \ " </pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : ascii oo
o2 = {32, 92, 32, 34, 32}
o2 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : ///-- //// -- /////////
o3 = -- /// -- ///</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : ///-- ////// -- ///////////
o4 = -- //// -- ////</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i5 : //////////////
o5 = ////</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="___String.html" title="the class of all strings">String</a> -- the class of all strings</span></li>
<li><span><a href="__dq.html" title="delineate a string with quotation marks">"</a> -- delineate a string with quotation marks</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_ascii.html" title="ASCII character conversion">ascii</a> -- ASCII character conversion</span></li>
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