14 ESCAPING
This chapter is about a vexing problem and its Batch solution. The problem is that you sometimes want to use a character as simple text but that particular character has a specific function in the coding language. The solution is escaping.
In this chapter, I’ll explain all the intricacies surrounding how to escape a character in Batch. A certain syntax is used the majority of the time, except for when it isn’t. You’ll learn about multiple rounds of escaping, the syntax, and why you might want to escape a character more than once. I’ll also return to the “continuation character,” used to continue a command on multiple lines of ...
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