Escape symbol

The Genero Business Development Language (BDL) compiler treats a backslash ( \ ) as the default escape symbol, and treats the immediately following symbol as a literal, except for special characters such as \r or \t.

See the string literals reference for the complete list.

To specify anything that includes a literal backslash, enter double ( \\ ) backslashes wherever a single backslash is required. Similarly, use \\\\ to represent a literal double backslash.

MAIN
  DISPLAY "\a"   -- displays a
  DISPLAY "\r"   -- displays CR
  DISPLAY "\n"   -- displays NL
  DISPLAY "\ta"  -- displays <tab>a
  DISPLAY "\\"   -- displays \
  DISPLAY "\\\\" -- displays \\
END MAIN