Learning to Program

I Need My \s

We have improved our patterns a lot from the first regular expression we wrote (/Steven/), and we haven’t even gotten into one of the most prolific features regular expressions have to offer: the backslash. So far, we’ve used the backslash as an escape character, a way to take the super powers away from a special character. But the backslash doesn’t just take; the backslash can give super powers to ordinary characters, too.