Title: String Escape Sequence in PHP
Last modified: August 17, 2017

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# String Escape Sequence in PHP

 *  [yehudagefen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yehudagefen/)
 * (@yehudagefen)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/string-escape-sequence-in-php/)
 * Hi,
 * When I enter a backslash such as ‘O\’brien’ or “O\’brien” the editor removes 
   the ‘\’. How doo I enter a literal character such as ‘
 * Many thanks

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