st: Definitive reference for use of backslash in Stata

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Dear All

Sorry for asking such a basic question. Where is the definitive reference 
in the Stata 7 documentation for the use of the \ (backslash) character as 
an escape character to flag the parser not to expand macros? I can only 
find -[U] 21.3.9 Constructing Windows filenames using macros-, which does 
not give an exhaustive list of the uses of \ as an escape character. (I 
know about \\, \$ and \`, but are there others?) I have looked through the 
hardcopy index and done -findit- under the keywords \, backslash, escape, 
and macro, but have not found anything more definitive.

Best wishes (and thanks in advance)

Roger

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