What does /. mean?

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CallumD
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What does /. mean?

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I know a fullstop means "any character", but what does \. mean?

*edited to fix the direction of the slash.
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Post by CallumD »

I see, a literal fullstop, and the backslash is an "escape". I get it.
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Yep, you are right :wink:
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