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Old 11-18-2008
Arunprasad Arunprasad is offline
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Hi vbe,

Thanks for your update.

i read some documents about back slash, i am not clear with the below statement
"preceding the same string with a backslash, \, also removes the special meaning of a character, or string".

what it means.