Comment on PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS

• stochasticity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I definitely pasted it correctly. But you know, accidents happen.

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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. The secret is to post it with a double backslash, like this: "\"

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    • stochasticity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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