Good Evening,
I am having a small conundrum. What is the proper usage of the forward slash and the backslash.
When I was in school (shortly after the last ice age) we never used a forward slash.
Good Evening,
I am having a small conundrum. What is the proper usage of the forward slash and the backslash.
When I was in school (shortly after the last ice age) we never used a forward slash.
In general, you don't need them in ordinary text. However, if you are listing two different duties as a single job, or something similar, you do so as:
Cook/housekeeper - or - Cook / housekeeper
Gardener/handyman - or - Gardener / handyman
Some people teach to have no spacer while others teach to use spaces. I use spacers as it makes the wrap around of text between lines much easer.
edit to correct system deleting text of one style of slash - continues to fail so using the '*' to indicate the other type of slash not shown.
In regards to computer usage the '/' is often used to designate between folders or directories while the '*' is often used for internal locations, options, or commands.
As to backslash and forward slash, when I was in school back during the Jurassic Period the name was derived from the direction the line took in going from the bottom of the line to the top so '/' was a forward slash and '*' was a back slash. However, now days I often see them being named the other way with '/' being called a back slash and '*' being called a forward slash.
You backslash is showing up as an asterisk (*)
please read the edit note I placed in the middle of the post.
As I understand it;
'/' = forward slash
\ = back slash
Reading left to right (English), '/' is leaning in the direction of reading.
\ Is backward to normal reading progression.
That is my understanding. Right/wrong?
Someone care to tell me why the backslash keeps dissappearing?
Never mind, got it sorted.
Someone care to tell me why the backslash keeps dissappearing?
This system is probably based on BBCode of some sort, and it doesn't like backslashes in postings.
Often they are just removed.
Thanks, inserted \ and it came up, then went away again. Lol
Had to reinsert it as \ dissappeared during edit.
This system is probably based on BBCode of some sort, and it doesn't like backslashes in postings.
Often they are just removed.
Its can be used as an "escape code," of a sort that also is valid for PHP and other contexts such as SQL/mySQL as well. Easier to strip it from a post entirely than try to parse it out and open your code up to possible exploitation.
In regards to computer usage the '/' is often used to designate between folders or directories while the '*' is often used for internal locations, options, or commands.
That depends on the Operating System: Path (computing) (Wikipedia). DOS, Windows, and Symbian are among the OS's that (also) use backslashes.
http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/ASCII-HTML-Characters/
Seems like a handy cheat sheet for non-coding types like me.
http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/ASCII-HTML-Characters/
Seems like a handy cheat sheet for non-coding types like me.
I use this list because it includes a column with the "weird character" codes.
And of course there's the W3 html character reference card.
What is the proper usage of the forward slash and the backslash.
The backslash is used with computers.
The forward slash? According to the Chicago Manual of Style:
- With fractions
- Between lines of quoted poetry
- In Internet addresses (URLs) and pathnames
- To signify or or and/or
- With two-year spans, e.g., 1991/92 (instead of an en dash)
- With dates (informal), e.g., 6/1/11
- In abbreviations, e.g., $7/hour (instead of per) and c/o (instead of a period)
According to wikipedia:
Bob Bemer introduced the backslash character into ASCII on September 18, 1961, as the result of character frequency studies. In particular, the backslash was introduced so that the ALGOL boolean operators ∧(and) and ∨(or) could be composed in ASCII with a forward slash/backslash and backslash/forward slash, respectively. Both these operators were included in early versions of the C programming language supplied with Unix V6, Unix V7 and more currently BSD 2.11.
OK the answers are clear as mud. I will just continue my confusion. I find that seeing the forward slash as not right
OK the answers are clear as mud. I will just continue my confusion. I find that seeing the forward slash as not right
You got those confusing answers because the 'correct' use of slashes depends on the field of interest in which they are used. Assuming that the field of interest you are inquiring about is story and book writing it's always a forward slash (/). But if a specific text-part represents something from another field of interest (for example a scientific formula) the rules for that field of interest apply.
Just to make it a little more confusing ;)
When I did my CS degree (back in the mid 1970's), my Unix OS lecturer (Professor John Lions, author of the 'Lion's Book) called the backwards slash a 'slosh'. The exclaimation mark (!) was called a 'splat'.