• Dicska@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Oh, I know. I went through it once.

        The tricky bit is that a lot of scripting/programming languages reserve the backslash for special stuff. For example, “\n” means a line break. When you pasted the right arm (which is seen on the left ; ) ), lemmy’s editor expected a special thingy, so it was kind and removed the backslash for you, so that you don’t have to. The secret is to post it with a double backslash, like this: “\\” (for example, I actually had to use FOUR backslashes in a row, since it’s two double backslashes, because each means one backslash).

        EDIT: Lol, I have bamboozled myself, too. I had to edit this a few times.

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          11 months ago

          I’m familiar with this particular way of handling characters, was unaware lemmy did it tho, cheers!

          Can’t decide if I should change my post. I suppose leaving it is armless.