Literal Characters; Examples - Symbol SPT 1700 Series Product Reference Manual

SPT 1700 Series Product Reference Guide
For example, the string "waitfor Joe<cr><lf>" waits to receive Joe followed by a carriage
return and line feed from the remote computer before executing the next command in the
script.

Literal Characters

The backslash ( \ ) character defines that the next character is transmitted as a literal
character, and is not subject to any special processing ordinarily associated with that
character.

Examples:

\^ Includes a caret as part of the string
\< Includes a < as part of the string
\\ Includes a backslash as part of the string
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