[SOLVED] Can't use "\" in print(" ")

I'm in the middle of programming my new OS but in print(" ") I can't use "\" when I do and I run the program the "\" symbol dosent show up please help!

that is because \ is a delimiter/escape character and is used for example to get a " into a string by typing \" … so to get the character \ you must also delimit/escape itself … use \\

uses of the \ http://www.lua.org/pil/2.4.html

The \ character is known as the 'escape character' in LUA. For example to go to the next line within a print:

print("Hello\nNew line")

To escape that, do a double \\:

print("\\")

TheOriginalBIT, on 20 January 2013 - 02:20 AM said:

that is because \ is a delimiter and is used for example to get a " into a string by typing \" … so to get the character \ you must also delimit itself … use \\

remiX, on 20 January 2013 - 02:20 AM said:

The \ character is known as the 'escape character' in LUA. For example to go to the next line within a print:

print("Hello\nNew line")

To escape that, do a double \\:

print("\\")

thanx!