oblique stroke


oblique stroke

(character)"/". Common names include: (forward) slash;stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal;solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat.

Commonly used as the division operator in programming, andto separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hencealso in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions inseveral programs.