
The backslash is used in several computer systems, and in many programming languages such as C and Perl. It is called a 'backslash' because it is the reverse of the slash (/) or forward slash. It is a typographical mark used mainly in computing.
#FORWARD SLASH VS BACKSLASH WINDOWS#
It would be useful if the separators were what Windows uses natively. The backslash is not really an English punctuation mark. escape sequences in C, Unix, and other languages/systems that borrow the same syntax (C++, Java, etc.). In Windows the forward slashes and back slashes are equivalent, but many programs will accept only backward slashes, and some will only accept double backslashes (ie ComputerNameSharedFolder), especially in quoted string constants, due to the standard use of backslash as an. Backslash is used for: file names in DOS and Windows.

C:\dev\qt-dev-debug\qtdeclarative>ninja quick_delegatechooser Performing configure step for 'quick_delegatechooser' loading initial cache file C:/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtdeclarative/examples/quick/quick_delegatechooser-prefix/tmp/quick_delegatechooser-cache-Debug.cmake - The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 5.0 - Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done - Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/0/bin/Host圆4/圆4/cl.exe - skipped - Detecting CXX compile features - Detecting CXX compile features - done - Looking for C++ include pthread.h - Looking for C++ include pthread.h - not found - Found Threads: TRUE - Check if linker can resolve circular dependencies - TRUE - Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC - Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC - Success - Found WrapAtomic: TRUE - Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder in the system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (missing: OPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY) (found version "1.1.1i") - Found WrapOpenSSLHeaders: C:/dev/Strawberry/c/include (found version "1.1.1i") - Configuring done - Generating done - Build files have been written to: C:/dev/qt-dev-debug/qtdeclarative/examples/quick/quick_delegatechooser-prefix/src/quick_delegatechooser-build Performing build step for 'quick_delegatechooser' Linking CXX executable delegatechooser.exe Completed 'quick_delegatechooser' The UNC syntax is sometimes written with forward slashes.
